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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 79887" data-attributes="member: 4948">I don't think they suffer the same way as we do from second hand smoke, but who's to say really? I think it would probably be better to not smoke around them. I'm a smoker too and I don't ever smoke inside... I smoke on my balcony only. I just don't like the smell of it and it could negatively affect the cats and they didn't ask for that.The person I recently got the two C. cyaneopubescens from smoked heavily. Even if their enclosures were appropriate for them, which they weren't, I still would have rehoused them because both the enclosures stank to high heaven of smoke. All the way home I could smell it from the back seat where they were and I'm a smoker and less sensitive to the smell. I couldn't wait to get them out of those enclosures. I'm sure that it just gets saturated in their webbing. And it coats the inside and might make it difficult for them to adhere to any surfaces. I still haven't cleaned those enclosures out.</blockquote>