Taking the 'Cancer' Out of Tobacco

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/13015...ogen/index.html

Who'll volunteer to smoke the first cancer-less cigar?

But seriously.. is this a glimmer of hope toward blowing a massive hole in the anti-tobacco movement? :thumbs:

"Dewey and Lewis add that nothing else in the plant changed – growth or resistance to insects or disease, for example – after they knocked out this specific gene." An indicator that it will taste just as good?

 

[H311oLHD]

I sure hope this works out. I absoutely love our hobby and would without a doubt smoke a cigar a day if it weren't for their possible harmful effects. Could cigars that cannot cause cancer be created within our lifetime?? I sure as hell hope so!!!

 

[LilBastage]

If nothing else changed I'd be all for it. I'm not really concerned about the very slight risk in cigar smoking at the rate I enjoy it, but if it were eliminated entirely I guess it would be a bonus.

It won't do anything to curb the smoking bans and the like though. That's all "you annoy me, go away" kind of stuff.

 

[Infinity]

Insurance guys do not penalize you severely for one, even two cigars a day...regarded as minimum risk...I'm in that category so it has to be true. :sign:

Brian

 

[Niko]

Insurance guys do not penalize you severely for one, even two cigars a day...regarded as minimum risk...I'm in that category so it has to be true. :sign:

Brian

X2 I'm in the same category.