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Research going back to the 1990s has linked tobacco and secondhand smoke with a number of serious health issues in dogs and cats, similar to humans

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Out of over 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful

This, in turn, leads to another villain that has gone unnoticed: the insurance industry, which never lifted a finger to fight smoking, even long after a small Massachusetts insurer, State Mutual Life Assurance Company, offered the first non-smoker discount after the SG report came out in 1964