There was a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology that showed dogs in smoking households had a 60 percent higher chance of lung cancer and another study showed long-nosed dogs like collies or greyhounds were twice as much at risk of developing nasal cancer if they lived with smokers.

The article only says it can contribute to – show me a vet that says it cannot contribute. As an animal lover, surely you can’t say that an article raising awareness is a bad thing? ‘Scaremongering’ is what raises awareness of all sorts of issues and is usually what leads to proper research and study in the first place.

Before you post a piece like this you might do your homework to determine whether what you are writing is provable by scientific determination or is just scaremongering. There is no proof at all for what you have claimed, and it does readers a disservice to assert outlandish claims while providing no proof for them.

I am not a smoker, but I am an animal- and people-lover who is tired of people blindly following what they hear without investigating the facts for themselves. The studies on humans show, clearly, that not a single case of cancer of any kind has ever been caused by SECONDHAND smoke. If you can show me the studies that prove dogs can die from secondhand smoke, I will stand corrected.