[SheLion]

How much money got spent on these studies?

Exactly. And I don't even want to ask how many cats they "tested" to come up with something.

What did they do? Keep a cat in a tightly sealed box for a year with smoke? I don't even want to know.

[CougarGA7]

What they probably did was set up a room full of smokers with each one assigned a cat.

The task the smokers had was to smoke cigarettes and blow the smoke in the cat's face. (Remenecent of the "Hey, let's get the dog high!")

They then paid these people to do this for 10 YEARS.