E-cigarette vapour does not damage DNA, even at doses 28 times that of equivalent smoke exposure. Scientists at British American Tobacco used lab-based cellular tests to examine the impact of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is a lack of research on how vaping changes DNA methylation. A recent study observed some parallels ...

The cells of people who vape have been found to contain changes to DNA similar to those seen in the cells of smokers. These changes in cell DNA, known as epigenetic changes, were found in cells ...

A recent Cancer Research study assessed the effect of tobacco smoking and electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes) use on DNA methylation changes associated with carcinogenesis. Study: Cigarette smoking ...

Two recent studies show while e-cigarettes may be as harmful as traditional tobacco cigarettes, they are may be less addictive. One study, conducted by University of Connecticut researchers and ...

The role of clinicians in smoking cessation Carcinogens enter smokers' bloodstream in minutes. Smoking tobacco delivers cancer-causing carcinogens just as quickly as injecting the substance directly ...

“In this study, we investigated the interplay between cigarette smoke, DNA damage and repair, focusing on the Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) protein Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C (XPC).” “In this ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...