Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 28, 2015 @12:13AM from the can-I-bum-a-smoke-resistant-gene? dept.

Bruce66423 writes: New research suggests that a portion of the population suffers few problems from smoking because their genes enable the smoke's effects to be overcome. The Medical Research Council reports: "The new findings, which used the first analyses of genetic data from participants in UK Biobank, may one day help scientists develop better treatments for diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a collection of life-threatening lung disorders affecting almost one million people in the UK. The findings could also help improve interventions aimed at helping smokers to give up."

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Here's the fast version of the 4 paragraph article by mwfischer · 2015-09-28 00:25 · Score: 4, Funny

"By comparing smokers and non-smokers as well as those with the disease and without they discovered sections of our DNA that reduce the risk of COPD.
So smokers with "good genes" had a lower risk of COPD than those with "bad genes"."
Top notch reporting, everyone. Solid work.