This is the sort of research all that 'anti-tobacco jihad' money should have been spent on all along.
Cure the disease.
That sounds just like the AIDS crowd.
But the anti-tobacco jihad wasn't about curing people of smoking, it was about revenue enhancements for liberal's program funding. Of the hundreds of millions already paid out by the tobacco industry, only a very small percentage has gone to stop smoking programs or research into disease cures. The vast majority gets dumped into general funds and spent as the liberals running the governments choose to spend it. And all the while, the hypocrisy of greedily counting the money collected from addicted people, a large percentage of whom will die from that addiction, without social programs trying to actually stop the addictions and thus stop the inflow of funds is screaming at us ... but Americans have been conditioned to not have eyes to see and ears to hear.