The Monitor Daily

Sunday, January 24, 2021
Log in

As a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, this site may earn from qualifying purchases. We may also earn commissions on purchases from other retail websites.

  • Home
  • Politics & National News
  • Business News
  • Tech & Science
  • Health & Lifestyle
  • About us
    • Contact US
    • Privacy Policy GDPR
    • Terms of Use
  • Latest News
    • Stormy Planet
    • US Surgeon Performs Face Transplant
    • 2017 MTV VMAs Nominations Are In And Voting Is Now Open
    • Bright House: Free McAfee AntiVirus and Adult Controls
    • Antarctic Yeti Crab Gets Formal Scientific Name
    • Spiders Take Over Australian Town
    • Interesting Facts About the Apollo 11 Mission
    • Social Smoking or The New Landmark of Elegance Among Young Women
    • Rare Weasel Returns To Washington State

Pages

  • About The Monitor Daily
  • Contact US
  • Our Team
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Terms of Use

Recent Posts

  • Precisely what is Administration Buyback? Feb 12, 2020
  • Precisely what is Administration Buyback? Feb 12, 2020
  • Where by do Registered requests get kept Dec 1, 2019
  • Find a Star of the event on the Submit Purchase New bride List May 19, 2019
  • Locate Really enjoy On the internet Apr 30, 2019
  • Get Love On the net Apr 12, 2019
  • NYC Man Snaps Photo of the Victim After Sucker-Punching Him in Broad Daylight Jun 29, 2018

Smoking Cigarettes Causes Mutations To The Lung Cells

By Leave a Comment

smoking cigarettes

After comparing and analyzing tumors researchers were able to identify just how bad smoking cigarettes damages out bodies.

A new study shows just how many mutations cigarette smoking causes to your lung cells. The findings revealed that a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes every day causes 150 mutations to his lungs in one year. If you add the number you might quit smoking immediately. This research was published in the journal Science this Thursday.

After comparing and analyzing tumors, researchers were able to identify just how bad smoking cigarettes damages out bodies. They also found that smoking doesn’t only affect the lungs. This habit can affect other parts of the body that are not exposed directly to smoke.

Previous studies showed that there is a link between cigarette smoking and 17 types of cancer but is was unclear how cigarettes can cause the tumors. Conducting this research they found that other organs are affected by smoking cigarettes and this is how people develop tumors. A previous study also showed that if people smoke, they could damage their DNA permanently.

A cigarette has 7,000 chemicals and more than 70 of them are carcinogenic. This is why smoking could lead to so many types of cancer.

“Before now, we had a large body of epidemiological evidence linking smoking with cancer, but now we can actually observe and quantify the molecular changes in the DNA due to cigarette smoking,” said the co-author of the study,” Ludmil Alexandrov.

This study showed that more than 150 mutations can be caused every year just by smoking a pack a day. In order to conduct this study, researchers analyzed 5,000 tumors and then they compared the tumors of the non-smokers to those belonging to individuals who smoke. They were able to find some molecular damage in the DNA of smokers which was not found on non-smokers.

Despite the fact that every person has a different number of mutations, smoking cigarettes can add more to their bodies. The findings showed that smokers had 23 mutations in their mouth, 39 in their pharynx, 18 in their bladder, 97 in their larynx, and 6 in every cell of their liver. These mutations had appeared after only one year.

With this study, researchers were able to prove that smoking cigarettes does a lot of damage to the DNA and it could also affect other organs apart from the lungs. They also proved that smoking accelerates the speed with which the cancer cells spread.

Image source: Wikipedia

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Share on Tumblr

Filed Under: Health & Lifestyle

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 34 other subscribers

Operation Paperclip

Remembering Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last Member of Von Braun’s Rocket Team

By Leave a Comment

giant ground sloths on white background

It Seems that Giant Sloths Once Roamed Earth, and Humans Used to Hunt Them? (Study)

By Leave a Comment

sn 2001ig supernova explosion and images of its stars

A Star Escaped a Supernova Explosion, and NASA Snapped its Picture

By Leave a Comment

ngc 6420 galaxy resembling a giant butterfly

Hubble Spots Giant Butterfly Formed by a Black Hole and Stellar Winds (Study)

By Leave a Comment

infrared image of a dog

Space Technology Could Help Protect Earth’s Endangered Species

By Leave a Comment

snake slithering on a beige background

Kirigami Skin Is Helping a Soft Robot Slither Like a Snake (Study)

By Leave a Comment

woolly mammoth

Ice Age Tracks Reveal How Young Mammoths Cared for Adult Ones (Study)

By Leave a Comment

High Priestess tomb.

Archaeologists Discovered 4400-Years-Old High Priestess Tomb Near Cairo

By Leave a Comment

dwarf galaxies

Dwarf Galaxies Challenge the Entire Dark Matter Cosmology (Study)

By Leave a Comment

NASA Scientists and Food Experiments

NASA Scientists to Test if Astronauts Could Eat Their Own Poo

By Leave a Comment

KFC Smoky Wings Box Can Turn into Awesome Drone

By Leave a Comment

Tesla Model S

Tesla Model S Involved in Autopilot Malfunction Accident

By Leave a Comment

Duke Nukem.

John Cena Cold Feature in Duke Nukem Movie

By Leave a Comment

Battlefield One

Battlefield One Apocalypse DLC to Land in February

By Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • eye procedure

    Queensland Mother Mutilated After Non-Invasive Eye Procedure Goes Sideways

  • HIV

    Northwest Arkansas Man Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison for Contracting HIV with the Purpose of Infecting Others

  • Meditation

    Yale Scientists Pinpointed the Brain Area for Spiritual Experiences

  • artificial intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Dermatologist in Melanoma Diagnosis

  • pill

    Arlington Doctor Gets 3 Years in Prison for Slipping Abortion Pill in Woman’s Tea

  • back of woman with short gray hair

    New Study Proposes Another Possible Cause for Gray Hair (Study)

  • two people jogging

    Being Physically Active Can Reportedly Make You Happier (Study)

  • OCD Twins Commit Suicide

    OCD Twins Committed Suicide, Freemont County Sheriff Confirms

  • fingerprint

    You Might Have Traces of Class A Drugs on Your Fingerprints

  • Bariatric surgery

    Star of ‘My 600-Lbs Life’ Dies of Heart Attack Following Bariatric Surgery

Categories

  • Business News
  • Entertainment
  • Featured
  • Health & Lifestyle
  • Nature
  • Politics & National
  • Sports
  • Tech & Science
  • US
  • World

Copyright © 2021 TheMonitorDaily.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Sitemap · Contact

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.