Did you know: Smoking a pack every day produces 150 mutations in the lungs

The article is like a wake-up call to those who have been addicted to smoking to the point of smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day.

According to Dr. Ludmil, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the US, people who are addicted to smoking at a rate of 1 pack a day are likely to suffer genetic damage, producing 150 molecular mutations in the cell. lung cells every year. This causes your lungs to go through the extremely dangerous cancer sooner or later.

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These types of molecular mutants cause lung cancer according to different mechanisms.

In addition, not only created 150 mutant cell molecules in the lungs but also produced 97 mutations in each cell in the larynx, 39 mutations for pharyngeal cells, 23 mutations for regional cells. mouth, 18 mutations in bladder cells, and 6 mutations in liver cells each year. Therefore, cigarette smoke still has the potential to cause cancer on some other organs.

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Not only that, the US team has also investigated lung cancer tumor cells taken from patients, a form of smoking, a form of non-smoking.

After conducting comparative analysis, the results showed that smokers' lung cancer cells showed more DNA cell mutations than non-smokers.

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Previously, cigarette smoke was estimated to contain 7000 toxic chemicals and cause lung cancer spread all over the world and rob the lives of 6 million people every year. And this trend continues to increase to 1 billion people who will die from tobacco in the next decade. - According to statistics from the World Health Organization.

This research has just been published in the International Journal of Science.