Every year of smoking causes DNA mutations that make cancer more likely
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 16:11
in Biology & Nature
Attention smokers: For every year that you continue your pack-a-day habit, the DNA in every cell in your lungs acquires about 150 new mutations. Some of those mutations may be harmless, but the more there are, the greater the risk that one or more of them will wind up causing cancer. The threat...