Why do cigarette companies perform animal testing?

Health officials have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes disease in nearly every organ of the human body and that animal tests are poor predictors of these effects. read more

As far as I know, the only people who've cut holes in the throats of dogs to make them smoke were Antismokers. The name that comes to mind is Dr. Auerbach and his American Cancer Society study. read more

Yet tobacco companies and the contract laboratories that they hire continue to conduct cruel, irrelevant animal tests on new and existing products. Torturous Tests In tests that many people don’t realize are still being conducted, animals are forced to breathe cigarette smoke for up to six hours straight, every day, for as long as three years. read more