Smoking and lung cancer genes: by Nature Video

Some of the strongest evidence that lung cancer risk variants are common in the general population appears in Nature and Nature Genetics, although the three papers differ on whether the association is direct or mediated through nicotine dependence. Watch the research being discussed here.Stephen Chanock,David Hunter and Kari Stefansson discuss how your genes can affect your addiction to nicotine and your cancer risk from smoking.

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[agapitoflores001]

Alcoholics and smokers, you better stop your vices before it is too late.

[archdeaconj]

I does seem that there are many non-genetic factors other than smoking that causes cancer. Genes cannot account for the massive and gradual rise in incidents of cancer over the last hundred years or more, because the gene pool remains more or less the same. Contenders, I think, are: pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and some food additives, electromagnetic pollution and air pollution, in other words just living in the modern world. You've just got to minimise the risks where you can.

[akr333333]

thanks,my wife died 4 months ago due to lung cancer only at the age of 34. not only she was nonsmoker, she was not havitueted any kind of life risking things. she had no diseces. i never smoked in her presense. when the cancer founded,she died only after about 90 days.this is the reason of my this kind of comment,nothing more.sorry to everyone who disliked the opinion,bad is always bad,it is only true thing.

[archdeaconj]

You're absolutely right! Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides...and that's before they put in the chemical flavouring, colouring, preservative (and other additives) growth hormones in meat and dairy produce and so on. It's not really puzzling, is it. At last I've got an intelligent reply. Thx. Our government puppet (strings pulled by big business) says it's all genetic plus lifestyle. Bullshit!

[monkeytwineball]

This is incorrect deduction drawn from incomplete knowledge.

I'm happy to educate you.

Statistically smoking increases your rate in all types of cancer.

Speculatively, it's from the extra load on your immune system. Smokers also tend to catch a cold more often.

[monkeytwineball]

It's not puzzling, we eat absolute shit.

The vegetation has all the nutrients sucked out of it

All the meat is fed chemical 'enhancement' and divorced from its natural environment

Everything else is corn syrup...

[monkeytwineball]

I don't think I care for that thought...

[ani2k]

it's one of those thousand dumb opinions where weak people like you who smoke a pack every day and cant quit say that " smoking only increases the chance of cancer". Lemme ask you this: If it increases the chance, then why not quitting it. why not keeping the chance the same or even decreasing it.

[Mopperty]

Imagen in 15 years time, you will have genetic analysis to find out how much your health insurance premiums will cost you...

[hypnosis07]

PEOPLE ARE still going to get cancer because are world is so poluted ecpesaly smog if people dont know smog is very cariginetic