Second Hand Cats

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not:

American researchers claim to have discovered that passive smoking affects felines as much as it does human beings, and have expressed the hope that endangering the family pet might shame some addicts, immune to the effect they are having on their immediate family, into kicking the habit.

Researchers at Tufts University, Massachusetts, reporting in the American Journal of Epidemiology, say that living in a household of smokers considerably increases a cat's risk of acquiring feline lymphoma, which kills three quarters of its victims within a year.

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The anti-smoker Puritans stop at nothing.