Animal experimentation: Snuff industry

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The cruel animal experimentation industry snuff ...

In the interest and ambition to achieve favorable results in research on nicotine and smoking in general, snuff industry has spent years doing various and brutal experiments on animals ranging from primates anesthetized while testing with a tube down the throat are bombarded into the lungs of cigarette smoke (nicotine, carbon monoxide and other ingredients) to force the dog to breathe through mechanical ventilators chronically exposing them to smoke being forced to snuff smoking 30 cigarettes a day.

Other types of testing by industry against animal snuff include:

- Cut holes in beagles' throats through which these individuals are forced to breathe smoke snuff focused for an entire year.

- Insert electrodes into dogs' penises to test the effects of smoking on sexual functioning.

- Masks with straps tying in the face of rats, mice and monkeys and force permanently to breathe smoke snuff.

- Hold on chairs rhesus monkeys with brain devices (electrodes or stereotactic needle) and exposing them to nicotine and caffeine to see how these substances affect their breathing.

Despite the numerous campaigns against cigarette smoking, the tobacco industry continues to make painful experiments on dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, chickens, rats, mice and other animals.

Precisely at this time, pregnant monkeys of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center (ORPRC), University of Oregon Health and Science, are captive in small metal cages, while their fetuses are exposed to nicotine. However, the experimenter Eliot Spindel said that "the deleterious effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy are too well established." Their study, which lasted 5 years during which primates babies killed immediately dissecting the lungs, was financed with taxpayer money to Partre 2004.

Multinational companies such as Marlboro have no qualms in declaring publicly on the testing carried out on animals. Others like R.J. Reynolds, the Smocking Research Foundation of Japan, supported by 87% by Japan Tobacco, owners of the English company Manchester Tobacco, the UK Tobacci Manufacturers Association, Philip Morris (maker of Marlboro), Liggett & Myers (makers of Chesterfield and L & M) , including tobacco, at the time were reported to governments and public opinion by using these methods cruel, contrary to all "human and animal ethics."

There are, of course, numerous reasons why these results are irrelevant to human health. The tests are highly artificial and ignore the known differences between species in their response to snuff. Rats still enclosed in tubes, suffering stress, and breathing only through your nose (humans also breathe through the mouth) are not a model for the complex patterns of human smoking. Similarly, other species used, the duration of the tests (which certainly does not correspond to the long-term nature of much of the long level of human passive smoking), dosage and methodological differences, this makes it impossible that the results can applied to humans.

The history of the health debate on smoking directly shows clearly how the doubts raised by misleading animal experiments can be used to the detriment of public health.

In conclusion, yes, smoking makes you an accomplice to torture animals. In fact, statistically, more animals saved by not smoking for a month, dedicating to make adoptions a year.

"Animal testing is bad science. We want good science.

Good science involves three things:

- Must be specific to species,

- Must not cause damage,

- And must be based on evidence.

Experiments in animals fail in all three considerations. "

Dr. Andre Menache MRCVS.