My husband smokes cigars outside,not in the house. I am asthmatic and he is very aware that I can not sit downwind from him. We treat the dogs and birds the same way. So the dogs may be present but they stay upwind. If the smoke hangs in the air then Dad has to finish his cigar alone. I do think that some animals as well as people are more sensitive to smoke.
In reference to the comment that smoking is the only thing that causes COPD,it is not. People with asthma also experience COPD,it is scaring due to the really bad coughing fiits that someone with asthma can have or the continued battle with pneumonia throughout their lives. My mother suffers from this and so did several other relatives non of which ever smoked. |