ok. I'm not a big fan of smoking. I was once a stupid teenager that thought it was cool, as with drugs and everything else. when i got pregnant i quit cold turkey with no problems. while i was pregnant the smell of smoke gagged me and gave me asthma attacks. so my question is: if smoking is so dangerous to people, could it hurt reptiles too? I'm just wondering, i dont let people hold my herps while they smoke, 1) i dont want them getting burned and 2) wont 2nd hand smoke have the same affect on a reptile as it would a human? like cancer or upper respiratory. I'm asking b/c when i lived with my inlaws (*huge groan and eye roll there) i had 2 small snakes. baby RTB and baby burm. we lived there for about 2 months and my perfectly healthy snakes both got upper respiratory infections. we treated them and a month later they were back. we moved out in febuary and the only thing that has changed is that there isn't any cigarette smoke around them. they havent had another infection. I also have a few much much more expensive snakes and i dont need them getting respiratory infections. am i nuts or do you think the smoke had somehting to do with it? does it have the same affect (cancer and such)...
beth
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