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80 and 88? Didn't coffee cause cancer then?
June 22, 2005
A research team led by SIUC biotechnologist David A. Lightfoot has found that tobacco equipped with an extra gene can produce markedly larger amounts of 159 chemical compounds. Fourteen of these could become the drugs of tomorrow, fighting off tumors, treating epilepsy and Parkinson's disease -- maybe even curing the common cold.
That doesn't mean it's good to smoke...
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