(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 10, 2009 ) Battlecreek, MI -- Andrew Andrekopoulos says, "a new study shows that many smokers are kicking the habit for the sake of their pets."
Sharon Milberger, an epidemiologist at the Henry Ford Health System Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and lead author of a report in the February online issue of Tobacco Control said about the survey, "We wanted to determine whether pet owners who learned that smoking is bad for their pet's health would change their behavior."
Millberger and her colleagues found that nearly one in three of the pet-owning smokers surveyed stopped for the sake of their pet or pets.
Almost 3,300 residents of southeastern Michigan responded to the online survey. One in five was a smoker, and more than one in four lived with a smoker.
Of the smokers, one in three said that knowing that smoking was bad for the health of a pet would prompt them to give it up. Almost one in 10 said they would ask a partner to quit, while one in seven said they would ask their partners to smoke only outdoors.
About four of 10 smokers and one in four of the nonsmokers living with someone who smoked said they be interested in information on the effects of smoking and how to stop.
The American Veterinary Medical Association reported some years ago that 85 percent of people who own pets consider them to be family members,
For more information on why smoking is bad for you and your pet, you will find it at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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