Although health officials have known for decades that cigarette smoking leads to lung cancer, emphysema, and other diseases, the tobacco industry, in a desperate bid to find evidence to the contrary, still conducts painful experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, chickens, rats, mice, and other animals.

Kids will be clamoring for PETA’s colorful new trading-card stickers featuring parodies of the popular cigarette brands Camel, Marlboro, Cool, and Salem. But when kids see the gruesome pictures on the backs of the cards, they’ll learn about yet another danger of smoking—cruelty to animals. (read more)

AMERICAN SPIRIT CIGARETTES BUTTS OUT OF ANIMAL TESTS
Smokers who care about animals can breathe a sigh of relief: American Spirit has broken ranks with big tobacco and become the first-ever cruelty-free cigarette in the U.S. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco even includes a factoid to that effect in many packs (see attachment) that says: “Did You Know? Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company does not engage in the practice of testing any of our tobacco products on animals.” (read more)

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