Kinship Circle: LETTER/ Warning: Philip Morris Lethal For Animals
June 2nd, 2007 2:51 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
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Date: Jun 1, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Warning: Philip Morris Lethal For Animals
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6/1/07: Warning – Philip Morris Lethal For Animals
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Michael Szymanczyk, Chair and CEO
Philip Morris USA
6601 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23230
ph: 804-274-2000, 1-800-343-0975
web email: pmusa.com/en/contact_us/contact_us_by_email.asp?action=init
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www.philipmorrisinternational.com/pmintl/pages/eng/default.asp
Dear Mr. Szymanczyk,
As someone who supports viable medical research, I respectfully ask Philip Morris to no longer fund or conduct misleading laboratory experiments on animals.
Please advocate more cost-effective, expedient non-animal systems. Options range from clinical trials and epidemiological studies with volunteer smokers…to in vitro cell and tissue culture analysis, human brain mapping technologies, autopsy/biopsy studies, videos and mathematical modeling, virtual organs and 3-D models, advanced MRI imaging…and a multitude of other non-animal tools.
I am disheartened to learn about construction plans for a 450,000-square-foot research/development facility in Richmond, Virginia that includes an expanded animal research center. Apparently, design layouts contain rooms labeled “Primate Room 1″ and “Primate Room 2.” Why? Researchers have long known animals do not develop cancer in the same manner as humans. In fact, evidence shows far too many physiological, cellular, genetic and psychological variations between species for accurate and predictive extrapolation to humans.
I actually thought the old-fashioned method of encasing monkeys, dogs, rats or rabbits in smoke inhalation devices had been discarded. I was surprised to find out about a recent study that hooked pregnant rhesus monkeys to mechanized pumps and forced them to ingest nicotine over three or more months. Researchers surgically aborted and killed the monkeys’ fetuses for further “analysis.”
It is fundamentally futile and redundant to inject animals with nicotine or pollute their lungs in an attempt to extract data pertinent to human adults and newborns. We already know smoking triggers cancer of the lungs, larynx, tongue, salivary glands, mouth, pharynx, and esophagus; promotes cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and strokes; harms fetuses; causes pulmonary illness and death; compromises the immune system; and is very addictive.
Moreover, animals don’t naturally encounter tobacco or become addicted to it. Human epidemiological and clinical studies — not animal experiments — have revealed all applicable information about smoking-related diseases in people.
Tobacco product manufacturers are not required under U.S. federal law to perform animal tests and Britain has outlawed smoking experiments on animals since 1997. There is no justification for immobilizing animals in metal smoke “masks” and body containers for these indisputably cruel tests.
I strongly encourage Philip Morris to conduct its research without the animal component. Substance testing in animals does not advance science. It wastes time and resources better spent on education and addiction treatment programs.
Thank you for your attention to this vital matter,
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