Scientists have issued a stark warning about smoking – it begins to damage your genes within mere minutes and not years after it reaches your lungs.
Smokers developed maximum levels of the substance in a time frame that surprised even the researchers – just 15-30 minutes after the volunteers finished smoking.“
This study is unique,” writes Hecht, an internationally recognized expert on cancer-causing substances found in cigarette smoke and smokeless tobacco.They found that phenanthrene quickly formed a toxic substance in the blood known to trash DNA, causing mutations that can cause cancer.
