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Jump to full article: HealthDay [HealthScout], 2002-07-31
Intro: Even having nine lives is no protection against secondhand smoke.
Cats who live with people who smoke are more than twice as likely as other cats to develop a deadly form of cancer called feline lymphoma, says a study by scientists at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Massachusetts.
The study appears in tomorrow's issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The finding provides compelling evidence of the need for further study of the link between secondhand smoke and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in humans, which is similar to lymphoma in cats, the study authors say.
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