[theBCnut]

“Smoked” flavoring is definitely bad, but not the same as natural wood smoking. And over a lifetime of eating naturally smoked meat, they have found that the meat has some mild cancer causing agents so people have an elevated risk, but from everything I have read, since dogs don’t live as long, it may not be an issue for them. It sure shouldn’t have been a problem for a six year old dog, but if the diet was unbalanced long term, that could have been a factor.