Smoking's up-side: Nicotine protects the brain from Parkinson's disease

Monday, August 1, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

If you've ever wondered if smoking offered society any benefit, a new research report published in The FASEB Journaloffers a surprising answer. Nicotine protects us from Parkinson's disease, and the discovery of how nicotine does this may lead to entirely new types of treatments for the disease.

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