A few people in my class participated in the university-wide graduate research day this week, in which students did poster presentations of their projects. One person, mentioning how weird it was to be surrounded by people doing medical research, referred to the prototypical study as "The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Rabbits." This prompted someone else to remark on the sadness of poor little rabbits, puff-puffing away.
I do not need to see the results of any empirical research to state with confidence that mixing bunnies and cigarettes is not going to lead to anything good.
A lit cigarette in the mouth of a rabbit will be flung dramatically away within moments (probably to a place where a fire can start, thus burning down the house: rabbits, humans, and all).
UPDATE: Walking to my car after writing this blog post, it struck me how bizarrely appropriate it was for someone to talk about cigarette smoking research in Winston-Salem, NC.
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On the R.J. Reynolds family estate, no less.
No wonder I never see bunnies on campus - the cigarette smoke killed them off.
Sillies. Everyone knows bunnies don't smoke tobacco. They only eat it fresh! Nom nom nom nom.
Well, not sure about tobacco, but I do know they like grass...
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