• Question: how does smoking affect your probability of getting cancer?

    Asked by jump45day to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, Armin on 21 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Maria McNamara

      Maria McNamara answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      Cigarettes contain a bunch of chemicals such as tars that are carcinogens – they damage the cells that line the respiratory tract. Over time if cells accumulate enough damage, their behaviour changes and they transform into cancer cells by growing aggressively and in the ‘wrong’ places.

Comments