http://libertytimes.com/2007/new/sep/22/today-int5.htm
《中英對照讀新聞》Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in Pets 二手菸導致寵物罹患癌症
◎陳成良
There’s ample scientific evidence to suggest that secondhand cigarette smoke can cause cancer in pets.
科學證據充分顯示，二手菸會導致寵物罹患癌症。
And your furry friends don’t just inhale smoke; the smoke particles are also trapped in their fur and ingested when they groom themselves with their tongues.
而且，你毛茸茸的朋友們不只吸入菸，菸的微粒還會滯留在皮毛上，當牠們用舌頭理毛時，也會把這些微粒吃進肚裡。
A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that dogs in smoking households had a 60 percent greater risk of lung cancer; a different study published in the same journal showed that long-nosed dogs, such as collies or greyhounds, were twice as likely to develop nasal cancer if they lived with smokers.
一項發表在「美國流行病學期刊」的研究發現，吸菸家庭養的狗，罹患肺癌的風險高出60%；發表於相同期刊的一項不同研究則顯示，諸如英國牧羊犬及靈堤等長鼻子犬種，如果與吸菸者同住，罹患鼻癌的可能性較一般情況高出一倍。
And in yet another study, vets from Tufts University found that cats whose owners smoked were three times as likely to develop lymphoma, the most common feline cancer.
在另一項研究中，塔夫茲大學的獸醫人員發現，飼主有吸菸的貓咪，罹患淋巴瘤的可能性是一般情況的3倍。淋巴瘤是貓科動物最常見的癌症。
Birds are also at risk for lung cancer, as well as pneumonia, because their respiratory systems are hypersensitive to any type of air pollutant.
鳥類也有罹患肺癌及肺炎的風險，因為牠們的呼吸系統對任何一種空氣污染物都很敏感。
新聞辭典
feline：名詞，貓，貓科動物；形容詞，貓科的，像貓一樣的。canine則是指狗，犬科動物，犬齒，也可當形容詞。
vet：獸醫，縮寫自veterinarian。vet也可指退伍軍人、老兵，縮寫自veteran。
hypersensitive：形容詞，（對外界刺激反應）過度敏感的； 過敏性的。例句：He is hypersensitive to cold. （他對寒冷過敏。）
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