Clare Knottenbelt, Professor of Small Animal Medicine and Oncology at the University of Glasgow, headed the team that demonstrated the relationship between secondhand smoke and weight gain in neutered male dogs, among other effects. Here’s an earlier study she conducted that made subsequent canine and feline studies of the effects of environmental smoke possible. I include it because often the studies that result in noninvasive ways to monitor the effects of environmental contaminants in animals don’t get nearly as much media attention as the later results these earlier studies make possible.
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