Smoking Prevents Body from Fighting Cancer, New Study Suggests

Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards. The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, links tobacco smoking to harmful changes in DNA called "stop-gain mutations" that tell the body to stop making certain proteins before they are fully formed.

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