At a time when many scientists are moving away from animal experiments and embracing revolutionary developments in biotechnology, shockingly cruel, outdated, and nonsensical animal experiments continue unabated to test the effects of nicotine.

Fetal Nicotine Experiments

Tiny newborn animals and pregnant mothers, the most fragile and vulnerable of all beings, are subject to crude and archaic experiments to study nicotine’s effect on infant development.

Animal researchers staunchly defend these experiments as necessary for human health. But answers don’t come from animal studies. After decades of animal studies, we still have not properly addressed the problem of smoking during pregnancy.  Only education, public health outreach, and prevention programs can address the human behaviors that lead to smoking.

Decades of animals’ lives, and mountains of useless scientific data have gone up in smoke, because of this futile – and very costly– method of addicting animals to nicotine.