Show Smoking Rabbits Help Check Checki Cause Of Lung Cancer i iA I A of 40 colony ing rabbits at the Veterans AdministratIon Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration hospital in Dallas Texas may help answer the question of whether can CD cause use lung cancer cance Each is smoking a pack a day at the hospitals hospital's research labor labor- laboratory atory alory and altogether they will smoke more than cig- cig during their year five-year normal normal nor nor- mal life span VA reported Dr Robert H. H Holland who began the research project about about about a- a bout a year ago said the rabbits rabbits rabbits rab rab- bits are being subjected to conditions conditions conditions con con- duplicating human ing Rabbits react to certain lung conditions more like humans than than- do rats mice or other laboratory animals he explained The animals spend three out of each 24 hours in plastic smoking boxes designed by Dr Holland and Dallas electronics expert R. R A. A Huffhines and arc are I X-rayed X every six months After death the lungs and respiratory tracts of the rabbits are examined and the findings go into case files a rabbit Is placed in the box a lighted is set exactly two centimeters from its nose T r The h e animal gets fresh air at all times but when electric electric electric elec elec- timing devices and solenoid switches close an in inthe inthe inthe the box the rabbit also gets a puff of smoke Strangely enough most of the rabbits seem to enjoy smoking Dr Holland said and he added that New Zealand Reds particularly particularly particularly I seem to take their puff with obvious relish However he has not been able ble to detect the reason r-r r t |