http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/05/16/Smoking-Triggers-Deadly-Changes-in-Your-Cells.aspxResearchers have uncovered a key mechanism by which smoking triggers genetic changes that cause lung cancer. Exposure to cigarette smoke slows production of a protein called FANCD2 in lung cells. This protein plays a key role in repairing damage to DNAenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/05/16/Smoking-Triggers-Deadly-Changes-in-Your-Cells.aspx#126285Sun, 18 May 2008 17:23:02 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:126285moo_203smoking should be banned! period!<img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=126285" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/05/16/Smoking-Triggers-Deadly-Changes-in-Your-Cells.aspx#126284Sun, 18 May 2008 09:46:09 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:126284CalistaCome on, smokers... <br />Why do you support tobacco company that makes profit over your dead bodies?!<br /><img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=126284" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/05/16/Smoking-Triggers-Deadly-Changes-in-Your-Cells.aspx#126283Sat, 17 May 2008 02:37:47 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:126283RobubbaIs is the tobacco leaf that causes this disruption, or the millions of chemicals that are added to the cigarette and the part that you breath out of that causes this pain?<br /><img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=126283" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2008/05/16/Smoking-Triggers-Deadly-Changes-in-Your-Cells.aspx#126281Thu, 15 May 2008 14:04:38 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:126281DekalbPrevention of disease will always be better that treatment (and alot more cost effective!).<img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=126281" width="1" height="1">