Özet:

Impact of Environmental Tobacco Smoke have been revealed by research conducted on children, adolescents, adults and pets. Studies on the effects of environmental tobacco smoke is based to three different methods. Experimental studies with application of cigarette smoke as inhalation at certain times to the test animals, studies of cotinine and nicotine levels are measured by hair, urine, nail or biopsy materials taken from subjects and survey based studies. In the study, seventy-eight dogs who were brought to the Istanbul University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Training and Research Hospital, Internal Medicine Department Clinic for examination by pet owners and the questionnaires were distributed to pet owners as randomized and the forms were used as material. With the questionnaire, frequency of daily cigarette consumption of pet owners at home and how long the house is ventilated after the consumption of cigarette were evaluated as correlation of diseases and effects of environmental tobacco smoke. Chi-squared (X2) test was used for analysis and disease analysis was made by frequency distribution, according to smoking or not. According to the results, it was found that dogs exposed to environmental tobacco smoke had the most frequent cardiologic and dermatological diseases. It was found that there was a significant correlation between the increasing cigarette consumption with the cardiological and dermatological diseases (p<0.001, p<0.05 respectively). While the increase of the ventilation period is expected to decrease the occurrence of diseases, contrarily significant data was obtained between the prolongation of the ventilation period and increased incidence of cardiologic and dermatological diseases (p<0.001, p<0.05 respectively).   As conclusion that cigarette consumption may have an impact on the appearance of cardiological and dermatological diseases in dogs, increased cigarette consumption may increase the likelihood of these diseases, and ventilating the smoking environment may not reduce exposure.

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