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Anti-cancer remedy in Tobacco?

June 5, 2009

Statistically, smokers die of lung cancer a lot more frequently than other people. The ill habit kills several millions of people every year, but the production of cigarettes continues to grow. Russian scientists have recently made a breakthrough discovery: they found the anti-cancer remedy in tobacco.

The lead scientist of the Moscow Laboratory of Transgenic Medications, Vyacheslav Kosorukov, said that the remedy had been found as a result of a series of tests conducted on animals. The tests were held to create modern anti-cancer medicines - they are still made on the base of ovary cells of the Chinese hamster and the mouse myeloma.

“We bred luminescent flies, rabbits and mice. They shine in special lamplight, and we observe what happens in their body cells. Unfortunately, it is too expensive to produce anti-cancer medications on the base of animal cells,” the scientist said.

Interesting that a causative agent is also a curative agent. It would be much better to use tobacco to cure disease than to cause it. Excessive use of tobacco causes cancers and lung ailments due to certain substances contained in it. These substances are known as carcinogens (which means cancer-causing agents), and it is these carcinogens that cause the actual damage to the cells in the lungs. A cell that is damaged may become cancerous over a period of time.

One cannot predict which smoker is at greater risk of developing lung cancer. There are also other causes of these cancers besides tobacco.

Hopefully this will not end up being just another case of those who can afford to get treatment will receive it. Then why even bother with it? Even ancient civilizations knew about the curative abilities of many plants.

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