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Cigarettes age your DNA

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Smoking and obesity are linked to age-related chromosome damage.

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  1. ValdesA. M., et al. Lancet, published online: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66630-5 (2005).

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  1. Roxanne Khamsi
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Director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital, London

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Khamsi, R. Cigarettes age your DNA. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050613-3

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