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09/20/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Science shows the longer you smoke, the more mutations you get in your lung cells, increasing the risk of many types of cancer

Smoking wreaks genetic damage to different organs of the body and causes mutations in the DNA. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as King’s College London, said that on average, smokers accumulate at least 150 extra mutations in every lung cell for each year that they […]

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