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Re:Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes” by CoryG89 on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:38AM (#12871308)
Surely there are plenty of plants containing chemicals which if injested in some way could cause a change in cell mutations.
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Re:Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes” by rubicon33 on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:05PM (#12874094)
To confirm your point, last time I checked, vegans were still dying from cancer too.
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Re:Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes” by gozur88 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:15AM (#12878139)
You get DNA damage from a lot of different sources, from food to viruses to radiation to industrial chemicals to just plain replication errors.

I agree vegans probably still get cell damage from the food they eat, but that's not proof positive because they would still die from cancer even if they didn't.

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