Comment Re:Even your body wants to kill you (Score 0) 87
Pretty sure, the potential carcinogen issue only affects certain people... if not, why are there people who've smoked and drank their whole lives and not gotten a thing?
From what I've gathered, it all boils down to the length of ones telomeres. Telomeres are protective DNA at the end of chromosomes and act as a shield from incorrect instructions being inserted into the blueprints of a cell. They will slowly breakdown as a person ages and once they are no longer viable that is when a cell can start to produce mutations and in time cancer. The length of telomeres is genetically linked and there is no way to make them longer from what I have read. So it is possible that somebody who has very long telomeres is able to smoke or drink their entire lives and not end up with cancer because their telomeres were protecting cellular replication.