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9/21/2010

Scientists from the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research have a growing portfolio of evidence that tobacco smoke impacts the DNA of different people in different ways. Individual smokers inhale differently, and tools used to try to break addiction don’t work the same in everyone. The research team found significant changes in the smokers’ expression of genes that influence immune response, cell death, cancer, and metabolism of foreign particles compared with what was seen among non-smokers.