Cigarette smoke can harm kitty, too

Warning: Smoking cigarettes can cause cancer–in your pets.

That conclusion emerges from a new survey of the home environments of nearly 200 cats hospitalized at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass. Eighty of the cats had malignant lymphoma–a feline corollary to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in people; the other cats were diagnosed with a comparably serious disease having no link to smoking.