Smoking Linked To Brain Damage

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 09:14 in Health & Medicine

New research suggests a direct link between smoking and brain damage. Scientists have found that a compound in tobacco provokes white blood cells in the central nervous system to attack healthy cells, leading to severe neurological damage.

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