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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Chemicals, radiation, and viruses are mainly responsible for causing changes in DNA that lead to cancer, but do so by different mechanisms.

Chemicals capable of producing mutations are both naturally-occurring and synthetic, and are found in the environment, food, and water supply, or have been used as drugs

Radiation (often referred to as "ionizing radiation"). If the mutated cells do not die, they may become transformed and eventually cause cancer (as in the skyrocketing incidence of leukemia after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan).

Viruses can inflict damage by inserting themselves into the DNA of an appropriate host cell, also known as its "genome", to cause cancer.

There are, I'm sure, many things that COULD cause cancers of various types.
I can't prove a negative. IOW, I can't prove that SHS DOESN'T cause cancer. It is on the anti-smokers heads to prove that it DOES.

176 posted on 07/18/2002 7:11:03 AM PDT by Just another Joe
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To: Just another Joe
Show me the study/proof. Show me ANYONES death certificate.
177 posted on 07/18/2002 7:19:03 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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