Smoking wreaks genetic damage to different organs of the body and causes mutations in the DNA. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as King’s College London, said that on average, smokers accumulate at least 150 extra mutations in every lung cell for each year that they […]
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have published one of the largest reports to have ever investigated the effects of electronic cigarettes. We summarize its findings below. A comprehensive new report reviews the health risks of electronic cigarettes. The report — which can be accessed in full here— reviews over 800 scientific studies […]