- Signatures: 3,834
- Goal: 15,000
- Deadline: 2-10-2007
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Experiment after experiment attempts on even more in rats, mice, hamsters, lambs, dogs, cats, monkeys, and other animals need to be put to a stop at once! This is so disgusting and horrible that animals are forced to go through this. Do your part and help to put this cruel testing to a stop!
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Age | Do you Smoke? | Did you know that these cruel experiments were done on animals before this petition? | How do you feel about this? | Picture | Report |
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| 3,856 | 7:36 am PST, Nov 1 | Mrs. | Anonymous | 24 | no | yes | the world is not what we think it is |  |
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| 3,855 | 6:02 pm PDT, Oct 29 | Ms. | Anonymous | 21 | no | yes | I think that animal testing in inefficent and we already know that smoking is dangerous for us! | |
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| 3,854 | 9:06 pm PDT, Oct 19 | Ms. | Anonymous | 18 | Yes | Yes | I smoke american spirits. Although they are a part of a huge company I hope by supporting their ideals other people will as well and urge other companies to not test on animals. It is pointless! | |
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| 3,853 | 2:18 am PDT, Sep 24 | Ms. | Niamh Robert Murray | 13 | Nope | Yes, but not some of the details. | It's wrong. | |
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| 3,852 | 9:23 am PDT, Sep 18 | Ms. | Sonia Gessner | 21 | nope. | yes. | it depresses me. just looking at the pictures and seeing what they do to these helpless animals makes me cry. | |
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| 3,851 | 5:27 pm PDT, Sep 17 | Gwynndela Glitter | 24 | nope | Yup | It's stupid to test on animals for cigs, there are plenty of useless homeless people out there willing to be tested on for free smokes! | |
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| 3,850 | 6:39 am PDT, Sep 15 | Mr. | chris beal | 52 | No I do not smoke neither does my cat or dog! | YES | Complete waste of time as people the object of the research have been smoking for a very long time and there is more than enough data relating to the health issues of smoking with out inflicting this poison on animals | |
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| 3,849 | 5:06 am PDT, Sep 13 | Mr. | Steven Stepe | 46 | Just quit | Kind of. | Horrible | |
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| 3,848 | 6:56 pm PDT, Aug 23 | Anonymous | 52 | no | yes | Should not test anything on these poor defenseless animals | |
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| 3,847 | 7:37 am PDT, Aug 13 | Ms. | Simone Figeroux | 24 | NO! | Yes... | Horrible! Upset! |  |
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| 3,846 | 5:55 pm PDT, Jun 29 | Ms. | Rebecca Cartwright | 20 | No | I had no idea this happened.I don't understand why they do it. What does it achieve? | Sickened and disgusted | |
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| 3,845 | 10:22 pm PDT, Jun 26 | Ms. | Tacie Manes | 16 | No | yes, the Smoke Busters at my school showed a video. This video showed the horrors of animal testing. Masks on monkeys to make them breath in the smoke, pregnant dogs made to breath in smoke, it is all horrible. | It is disgusting!!!!!!!!! | |
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| 3,844 | 5:06 pm PDT, Jun 23 | Mr. | Pepijn Kokke | 19 | Nope. | No. | Horrible. | |
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| 3,843 | 4:19 pm PDT, Jun 13 | Mr. | Joe Park | 38 | Never have, never will | No | This needs to be stopped, and permanently. | |
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| 3,842 | 11:27 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Mr. | Nayef Alnayef | 23 | Yup | No | that rally rood, sometimes animals cannot show thier feelings.So, we have to respect them. thank you | |
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| 3,841 | 1:48 am PDT, Jun 6 | Ms. | Michelle Guillemeteaud | 26 | no!! | no!! | it's cruel !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm disgusted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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| 3,840 | 12:54 pm PDT, May 10 | Dr. | Anonymous | 29 | NO | NO | It is a terrible thing to do to harmless animals | |
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| 3,839 | 3:05 pm PDT, Apr 30 | Kirsten Ball | 18 | yes | Not untill very recently. | The tests done on these animals are disgusting. I am Herefore boycotting all smoking products which use Covance laboratory testing untill they stop. | |
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| 3,838 | 1:29 am PDT, Apr 30 | Mr. | Ari R. Kolman | 41 | Yes but After just a week I had cut down with Ed, half of what we were smoking.. It’s so exciting and wonderful. Especially since everyone should already know that cigarette smoking causes cancer, and that Second-hand smoke alone contains over 4000 toxic chemical compounds, 50 of which are known to cause cancer, and many of which have no known safe level of exposure. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that second-hand smoke is attributed with killing thousands of adult non-smokers annually, and not only the one‘s you smoke near but in the town, blocks & streets near you as well. That’s scary not to mention what it does to the animals… Especially your sweet loved ones that are with you all day or all night.. “There have been a number of scientific papers recently that have reported the significant health threat second-hand smoke poses to pets,” MacAllister said. “Second-hand smoke has been associated with oral cancer and lymphoma in cats, lung and nasal cancer in dogs, as well as lung cancer in birds.” She said a study conducted recently at Tuft College of Veterinary Medicine found a strong correlation between second-hand smoke and certain forms of cancer in cats. The number of cats with mouth cancer, also known as squamous cell carcinoma, was higher for those animals living in smoking environments versus those felines living in a smoke-free home. In addition, cats that lived with smokers for five or more years had an even higher incidence of this type of oral cancer. “One reason cats are so susceptible to second-hand smoke is because of their grooming habits. Cats constantly lick themselves while grooming, therefore they lick up the cancer-causing carcinogens that accumulate on their fur,” MacAllister said. “This grooming behavior exposes the mucous membrane of their mouth to the cancer-causing carcinogens.” - http://www.cavyrescue.co.uk/cgi-bin/news.pl?record=87 go to this page for even more information about the Companion Animals and the cigarette smoke we smoke at our homes with them.. | YES still an organization that tests & experiments “The Affects Of Nicotine” On Innocent Animals, in such barbaric ways that if seeing how they do it doesn’t make you want to cut down to quite or quite all together, something is wrong with you.. | I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. |  |
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| 3,837 | 11:09 am PDT, Mar 29 | Mr. | Michael Mullins | 18 | No, I've never/will never smoke. I'm straight edge. | Yes, it's absolutely horrible. | I'm appalled! All animal experiments are cruel, pointless, and wrong. |  |
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| 3,835 | 12:29 pm PDT, Mar 23 | Mr. | Yan Sergiyenko | 17 | yes but i have stopped smoking any brand other than American Spirits | yes that is why i stopped buying any brand other than American Spirits | its evil |  |
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| 3,834 | 8:08 am PST, Mar 6 | Ms. | Deanna Chavez | 17 | no | no | This has got to stop!!! | |
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| 3,833 | 12:48 pm PST, Feb 20 | Ms. | Anonymous | 21 | NO | NO | This is horrible imagine that animals tested these types of things on you. | |
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| 3,832 | 6:25 am PST, Feb 14 | Emma Kerr | 54 | I dont even smoke! | I had no idea these expirements were being done. This is horrible! | This is so stupid! | |
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| 3,831 | 7:27 am PST, Feb 9 | Anonymous | 28 | NO | NO | There are no words to describe this. It is just plain EVIL!! | |
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| 3,830 | 8:54 pm PST, Feb 8 | Mr. | Merlyn Seeley | 33 | no | no | Its freaking crazy! | |
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| 3,829 | 8:23 am PST, Feb 4 | Mr. | Anonymous | 31 | no | no | it should be stopped | |
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| 3,828 | 12:16 pm PST, Feb 3 | Anonymous | 72 | no | no | This should be halted ASAP. | |
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| 3,827 | 9:12 pm PST, Feb 2 | Ms. | wendi bauman | 44 | yes. | yes. | As a Buddhist, Vegan and member of PETA I KNOW it's wrong! | |
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| 3,826 | 2:00 pm PST, Feb 2 | Mrs. | Ashlie Velazquez | 24 | Yes | NO | I am going to stop smoking now, I knew that smoking was bad for myself but you don't need to hurt animals. Its a humans choice to smoke and the consequences of doing so are their own fault. |  |
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| 3,825 | 3:05 pm PST, Jan 31 | Ms. | Laura May | 18 | NO! It is disgusting and unhealthy and should be illegal | No, but now this has made me even more angry that people are so ignorant of others that they smoke (and I thought that wasn't possible!) | I am disgusted and think the people who did this are heartless and sick. They should be locked up! | |
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| 3,824 | 9:07 am PST, Jan 30 | Kim Drury | 51 | Yes I do smoke | No I did not. | I am extremely upset. I found a company that doesn't animal test and will start smoking their products. | |
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| 3,823 | 12:52 am PST, Jan 21 | Ms. | Priscilla John | 19 | Yes I do smoke! But I won't buy while animals die!... Thats why I only smoke "American Spirits" and I convinced my family and friends who are smokers to do the same! Because this is just cruel and pure wrong!..... | Yes I've known for about a year and a half! | I feel that testing on animals and forcing them to smoke! Is one of the worst things you can do! We humans choose to smoke knowing the fact that It's bad for you. And it can kill you. But forching poor innocent animals to smoke Is just wrong!!!!!! | |
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| 3,822 | 12:42 pm PST, Jan 17 | Ms. | Laura Waite | 13 | Not anymore :) | No | Utterly disgusted |  |
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| 3,821 | 2:51 pm PST, Jan 7 | Mr. | Lark Z . | 23 | Bohužel ještě ano. | Dříve jsem byl mladý a hloupý a netušil jsem,že cigarety se strašně bolestivě a krutě testují na složitém životu zvířátek.Samozřejmě tento krutý fakt mě odnaučuje kouřit! | Všechny pokusy a testy na zvířátkách jsou absolutně nepřijatelné a nepředstavitelně kruté.Člověk nemá sebe menší právo,takto zacházet se složitými životy zvířátek. | |
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| 3,820 | 7:17 pm PST, Jan 5 | Ms. | CF Tseng | 28 | I don't smoke. | I never knew these cruelty were done to these non-smokers until this petition came up. If you want to know what happens to humans who smoke, go test on them, not animals. | This is outrageous treating animals this way. Animals are not to be tortured. | |
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| 3,819 | 12:38 pm PST, Dec 17 | Ms. | claire nankhonya | 19 | yes | no i did not | i read that american spirit don't test on animals and will definately switch. i can't believe didn't know this |  |
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| 3,818 | 4:09 am PST, Dec 15 | Roos Holl | 21 | Yes | Yes, but american spirit doesn't test on animals. | awful |  |
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| 3,817 | 8:39 pm PST, Dec 9 | Anonymous | 14 | no,never | Yes | I think it is cruel, what did the animals ever do to you, NOTHING! How would you feel if they were testing stuff on you? You porbably wouln't feel very good. Why someone would ever do that to an inocent animal is beside my comprehension, people who do that are cruel and should think how they would feel. | |
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| 3,816 | 7:25 am PST, Dec 7 | Ms. | VIVIAN meadows | 49 | YES and the testing on animal's will not make me stop, SO WHY DOES IT STILL CONTINUE.? I know what I am doing to myself, please don't make animal's suffer anymore. | Yes I have signed petitions about this before. | Forcing these innocent animal's to smoke is horrific, I already smoke and I am aware of what it can do to me, so why still make the animal's go through such torture?. | |
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| 3,815 | 1:09 pm PST, Nov 16 | Ms. | Kelly Sweeney | 15 | not anymore | no | angry and shocked | |
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| 3,814 | 11:07 am PST, Nov 3 | Ms. | Katherine Nelson | 18 | No | No | I want it to stop. | |
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| 3,813 | 8:02 am PDT, Oct 24 | Ms. | Karen Guthrie | 61 | NO | No | I think it is horrible that they exploit animals. There is no question that somking and second hand smoke causes cancer. Why torture helpless animals that have no voice or legal protection? I will not buy from any company authorizing these or any other animal experimentation. | |
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| 3,812 | 11:28 am PDT, Oct 23 | Dr. | Bruno Rodrigues | 27 | No. | No. | It's sick! | |
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| 3,811 | 11:59 am PDT, Oct 20 | Ms. | Anonymous | 25 | no | No, I think an animal cruelty beings are full of life because they do not treat them as if they feel anything | too bad we can not understand how hurt these helpless animals that fill us the joy of life like when you get home you and your dog gets very happy, as hurt? | |
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| 3,810 | 11:23 am PDT, Oct 19 | Ligia Viquez | 59 | NO | no, how can I imagined such cruelty? | I want to throw up!! | |
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| 3,809 | 9:56 am PDT, Oct 19 | Carol Viquez Martínez | 47 | Yes | No | Terrible | |
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| 3,808 | 6:23 pm PDT, Oct 18 | natalia soto | 25 | Yes | No | I feel angry, disgusted, sad and shocked!! | |
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| 3,807 | 3:46 pm PDT, Oct 18 | Anonymous | 26 | No it is a horrible unhealthy habit and second hand smoke is worse!! | No I sure didn't | I think it is awful and should not be done, the animals do not smoke so why should they have to suffer especially for smokers. People have been smoking for so long now they all pretty much know the side effects and what it can do to their health and yet people still continue to smoke I say instead of testing on animals test on the smokers!! | |
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| 3,806 | 9:38 am PDT, Oct 13 | raina mcmahan | 27 | used to, not anymore, thanks to knowledge of this testing!!! | yes, thats when i QUIT smoking! Thanks Philip Morris, because i know many people wouldnt of quit smoking, until they found out how disgusting and cruel you are, and i tell everyone i know that smokes!! Oh, and American spirit was BOUGHT by PHILIP MORRIS, so dont be fooled into thinking american spirit is any better, you are STILL supporting PHILIP MORRIS AND ANIMAL TESTING! I know many folks dont know this. If you must smoke, roll your own, you can even buy filters, but quitting is better for you, your health and the animals. | Philip Morris is disgusting and should be ashamed, there are MILLIONS of people that smoke, test the effects of nicotine on THEM! | |
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| 3,805 | 8:08 pm PDT, Oct 8 | Ms. | meredith conrad | 18 | yes, i smoke natural american spirit. they do not conduct testing on animals. | yes, i did. | i feel that animal testing is completely unnecessary and an insult to science. | |
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| 3,804 | 1:41 pm PDT, Oct 2 | Bridget I. | 23 | NO | About 5 minutes, yes. | HORRIFIED! As my animal sits next to me! |  |
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| 3,803 | 9:02 pm PDT, Sep 20 | Ms. | Courtney Church | 29 | Formerly | No | There are no justifications for this. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that smoking is bad for you. Why make these poor animals suffer when we already know the outcome and the effects? How do these people sleep at night? This is not science...it is torture! | |
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| 3,802 | 5:52 pm PDT, Sep 18 | Kevin Wilde | 15 | no | yes | I feel that this is one of the worst testings done to animals. The result of these tests are obvious, the animals are going to die. Useless testing like this is discusting. We must stop companies from these kinds of testing at once. | |
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| 3,801 | 6:48 pm PDT, Sep 17 | Samantha N. | 22 | Yes. | Unfortunately, yes. | This is the stupidest thing ever....like, hello!! Smoking is bad, we're well aware of this, are we not??? What more do we need to know? | |
Cigarette and smoke testing on animals
Even though U.S. federal law does not require that tobacco products be tested on animals, thousands of animals are still kept in restraints like smoke masks and body holders and subjected to horrific experiments every year.
Experimenters have taken large grants from cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris; from government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health; and even from the March of Dimes, to inject animals with nicotine, force them to inhale smoke and addict them to tobaccoo.
Examples of their smoking experiments on animals include :
- Cutting holes in beagles' throats through which the dogs are forced to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year.
- Inserting electrodes into dogs' penises to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on sexual performance.
- Strapping masks to the faces of rats and monkeys and permanently restraining them to force them to breathe cigarette smoke constantly.
- Forcing dogs to be on mechanical ventilators and chronically exposed to cigarette smoke.
- Restraining Rhesus monkeys in chairs with head devices and exposing them to nicotine and caffeine to determine how caffeine and nicotine affect breathing.
Experiment after experiment attempts on even more in rats, mice, hamsters, lambs, dogs, cats, monkeys, and other animals need to be put to a stop at once! This is so disgusting and horrible that animals are forced to go through this. Do your part and help to put this cruel testing to a stop!
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