India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > Genetic link to tobacco addiction > Genetic link to tobacco addiction

Genetic link to tobacco addiction [1]

Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer.

Publication Date: 
03/04/2008
Hindu [2]
Tags:
Tobacco [3], Smoking [4], Tobacco Related Cancer [5], Europe [6]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/genetic-link-tobacco-addiction

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/genetic-link-tobacco-addiction
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tobacco
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/smoking
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tobacco-related-cancer
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/europe