Cigarette smoke

How do your kitties react to smoking indoors? I have a guest coming for the weekend who is a smoker. I quit so Astrid Ray hasn't been around lit cigarettes, just the old odor from before I quit which she might be able to smell even when I can't.

I am worried about it I guess. I have asked my friend to not smoke "as much" and not in any room where the cat is. Still, I know she can get going and start chain smoking and I just don't feel up to fighting about it. (With the heat wave, smoking outdoors isn't an option either...)

Any experiences?

I'm a smoker. Usually my boys just avoid me when I have one lit, but other than that they are fine.

You are going to let a guest smoke in your house? Wow, I never get that from my friends. I'm usually relegated to smoking on the front step at 4am, in the cold, alone.

Yep, I am - I am not letting her smoke in the car though. I smoked for years and years ago my family had pets and my mom smoked, but it was a huge house.

It is funny that I am way more worried about the cat than me relapsing - this will be the first test of being around someone smoking since I quit. I am sure she will probably not be hanging around a stranger anyway, she is too shy and skittish still.

I guess I will designate the back of the apartment as the Astrid zone and leave the windows open for her enjoy fresh air and the birds. We will probably hang out in the front room. My friend can have the air conditioning on in the back when she goes to bed and she is not smoking.

I am a smoker. I usually try to smoke on my patio but do smoke some in the house. When I do it's only in two areas that are next to windows as I really don't like to expose my kitties to cigarette smoke. If she must smoke in your house I would pick an area next to a window and only let her smoke there or just steer her out to the porch.

Some of my cats will avoid it and others don't care. When my hubby and friends have the occassional cigar, or if there are a lot of smokers over, I'll put a fan in the window blowing outward as an exhaust vent. Works really well actually. I also turn up the whole house purifier for a while.

I'm a smoker, but my home is smoke free.
I would politely ask them to smoke outside as long as weather permits.

I would also politely ask your guest to smoke outside... it doesnt take all that long to smoke one, so they should bear with the heat... it's not fair to subject your animals to it if they don't have the option to get outside themselves and I know how tempting it can be to just smell the smoke yourself, so it'd prolly be best for you and your animals to keep the smoke outside (I have hermit crabs too which are very sensitive to air quality, so I'd never let anyone smoke indoors and I run an air purifier almost at all times)... just my personal thoughts on it

My dad's a firefighter and my mom makes him undress in the basement after a call because he seems to have an aura of smoke around him, hahaha, its kinda the same thing

Tell her to smoke outside, or I guess in the bathroom with the fan on, which is better but not by much. Really, if I was visiting the home of someone who had recently quit I wouldn't dream of smoking inside even if they told me it was okay.

My roommate and I both smoke inside now... because he won't go outside and I hardly smoke so it doesn't matter much whether I do or not. My next apartment is a non-smoking lease (my landlord knows I smoke, and will do so outside). On purpose. I'm never smoking inside around my cat again because it's sooo bad for her. It makes me sad, when she's at my sister's running around she pants more often than her cats do, and they're middle-aged and fat.

To me, it's like smoking around a child, which I will not do, not even outside. Not even when their parents have them in the smoking section and they're both blowing it in their faces. I'm kind of upset about the inside smoking here but only three more weeks! ! When my roommate's gone I smoke outside.

We smoke but only beside the stove with the fans running. We don't have a smoke odour in our house (so say all the people who visit - smokers and non-smokers) so the fans are doing their job. The cats don't get up on the counters or stove on that side of the kitchen so they aren't getting the smoke. When my friend visits, she smokes standing in the kitchen by the fan while we chat.

Passive smoking is every bit as dangerous to cats as it is to children, possibly more so due to their small size.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2165722.stm

I wouldn't let anyone smoke around my cats (but then again, I don't let anyone smoke in my house, period )

B smokes and it didn't bother Luna or Whitey...however he does have his smoking room...the only one in the house that he's allowed to smoke in.

I do remember once Patches breathing on me and it just smelled of stale cold cigerettes...almost like ashes. It was disgusting.

Don't smoke around your cats!

I am a smoker and no one smokes in my home. I have plenty of shelter outside if the weather is bad. Second hand smoke is as deadly to animals as it is to humans.

Wow, a non-smoker allowing a smoker to light up in their house? I dont think I've ever seen that IRL LOL!

I'm just reiterating re: second hand smoke. My friend's beloved lab pubby died from lung cancer at ten months. She got sick and died quickly and he was so distraught he had the vets do an "autoposy" (I forget the correct term for animal autopsys). The dogs lungs were completely black and full of tumors as if she herself was the chain smoker.

My friend quit smoking immediately after that. Due to this, and esp. due to how small a 10lb cat's lungs must be, I will not allow smoking indoors around her. Better safe than sorry.

My guest has arrived and the first thing she did was light up when she got to my house. I had to run back to work so I didn't have time to get into it with her, but I did emphasize that she can only smoke near an open window and CANNOT smoke in any room if the cat is in it or around. NO SMOKING near Astrid! I will see how tonight goes; I hope it isn't a drama.

Your guest isn't really respecting you at all, unless you didn't tell her not to smoke inside. I hope things go well tonight!

I agree with Zissou'sMom she is totally not respecting you or your home. I would never dream of going into someone's house and lighting up a cigarette. I have some non-smoking friends that have said it's okay to smoke and I still don't do it. If she's that good a friend you should be able to tell her how you feel about it and she should understand.

"I do remember once Patches breathing on me and it just smelled of stale cold cigerettes...almost like ashes. It was disgusting. "



LOL! on the kitty with the dragon breath. What was he up to?

Well, when I quit smoking after a couple of days I would cough and it would smell/taste like smoke. So gross. Maybe that's what happened to Patches. Hopefully he wasn't eating them. But he probably breathed in the smoke and then his breath smelled.
Kids whose parents chain smoke inside have the same thing. My BIL's nephew smells and coughs like a smoker himself and he's barely in britches.

Forget-me-not, how is it going with your guest? I doubt highly that a couple of days will harm Astrid much, it would just bother me if I quit smoking and finally my place didn't smell and someone waltzed in and lit up.

There is a lot of medical reports about cats getting sick from second-hand smoke and it's just as bad for them as it is for us.

I'm afraid my personality is a bit meaner when it comes to smokers. This is my rule. NEVER SMOKE IN MY HOUSE. The balcony is ok. If anyone breaks this rule, they are NEVER permitted to come to my house EVER again. It's my home and I have the right to be as strict about it as all the smokers who have told me, "Well, it's my house, noone is going to tell me not to smoke." It didn't matter to them that the second hand smoke bothered me or that I was fearful about how it could affect my health. They didn't care. Many smokers are very selfish people, not to offend anyone who smokes but in my house, what I say about smoking goes, no ifs, ands or buts and if they don't like my no smoking rule they're just not welcome, period.

There is nothing wrong with being like this. If I lose a friendship over it, that's fine. There are other people who will at least be considerate enough to go outside. In smoker's homes I have to go outside just to not smoke a cigarrette and it's tough for me because these are all family members that I love and I feel powerless in these situations but in my home I can regain my power back for me, my boyfriend and my cats.

My husband smokes, but he doesn't smoke in the house and we don't allow any smoking in our house. Period. If someone doesn't like that, or respect us enough to respect our choices for our home (that we spend a heck of a lot of money on every month!) then they don't need to visit. Smoking is NOT good for kitties, or anyone else.

ETA: The heat wave isn't going to hurt your friend in the few minutes it takes to smoke a cigarette. My husband smokes outside in the heat, cold, wind, rain, snow. If he wants one bad enough he'll go outside and have one. And I love having my house not smell like smoke. Gizmo just put a nasty load in the litter box and I'd rather smell a natural smell like that then the foul, dirty smell of smoke.