For all publications and live data, visit Our funding : The GSTHR project is produced with the help of a grant from Global Action to End Smoking (formerly known as Foundation for a Smoke-Free World), an independent, US non-profit 501(c)(3) grant-making organisation, accelerating science-based efforts worldwide to end the smoking epidemic
I do not have a blanket anti-animal-research stance, but this bothers me for the following reasons: The double-standard where animals being put in a lot of distress is considered justified for science, but re-using negligible-risk publicly available survey data gets scrutinized
Since its discovery, researchers have found out that the virus can infect more than 125 species of plants, and not only that, your plants can get infected if you plant them in infected soil or if a bug carrying the virus bites your plant, but the most common way of infection is plant to plant, by direct contact or via your hands after consuming tobacco products
So, smokers and users of other tobacco products, please wash your hands before entering your (or someone elses) garden, and always throw your butts in the trash
