• Dogs can experience allergic reactions to secondhand smoke. Common symptoms are scratching, biting, and chewing of their skin – which owners often confuse with fleas or food allergies.

• Cigarette butt consumption can be deadly; just two cigarettes, if eaten by a puppy, can cause death in a relatively short period of time.

• Birds can experience adverse reactions to secondhand smoke and may develop eye problems, as well as other respiratory problems such as coughing and wheezing.

• Birds that sit on a smoker’s hand can experience contact dermatitis from the nicotine that remains on the smoker’s hand which can cause them to pull out their feathers.

• Cats exposed to secondhand smoke in the home have a higher rate of oral cancer. This may be due to the poisons from the smoke that have settled on the fur, which they ingest during grooming.

• Cats exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher rate of feline lymphoma, a deadly form of cat cancer, than cats not exposed to secondhand smoke.

• Cats can develop respiratory problems, lung inflammation, and asthma as a result of secondhand smoke.

College Students and Tobacco

• Major surge in tobacco industry money to college population following the Tobacco Settlement Agreement in 1998 (Bacchus and Gamma)

• Tobacco companies spend $6.9 – $8.4 billion just to the college population alone (Journal of American College Health, March 2001)

• 28.5% of college students are currently smokers nationally (“Tobacco Use Among College and University Students” Tobacco Summit, April 2001)

• 19% of Fort Collins residents are current smokers (1998 Health Survey, Poudre Health Services District)

• 31% of CU Boulder students are current smokers (CORE Data Survey)

• 36% of CSU students are current smokers (CORE Date Survey)

• During 1993 to 2000, substantial reductions in current smoking prevalence were reported for all age groups, except those aged 18-24 years. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR 2002)