It’s a well-known fact that smoking
is bad for your health, but did you know that cats living with smokers are
twice as likely to get cancer?
Truth,
an American anti-smoking organization, is hoping their latest video will
encourage more people to quit – if not for themselves, then for their feline
friends.
Truth
describes themselves as “an unstoppable force of smokers and non-smokers
banding together to end smoking for good.”
Rather
than criticize smokers, their aim is to provide tools for them to quit and find
fun new ways to do what no generation has done before – end smoking.
Their
video, with millions of YouTube hits, may help do just that.
A
variety of studies have demonstrated the danger of second-hand smoke to
animals, but third-hand smoke is also a huge concern.
Third-hand
smoke is the gasses and particles clinging to a smoker’s clothes, hair, car,
furniture and carpeting that sticks around long after the second-hand smoke has
disappeared.
Cats
lie on the furniture, carpet and your lap unable to escape from these toxic
particles. Then ingest them when grooming.
If
Truth is successful and eradicates smoking, cats and dogs will live longer,
healthier lives along with their human companions.
