Until now no body could have peeped into the mystery of death due to smoke but recently researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that hydrogen peroxide is the notorious substance in the cigarette smoke that turn normal healthy lung cells into cancerous one.
This study is an important finding and will pave the way for the cigarette industries to come out with safer version of cigarette for the consumer by taking out the harmful substance.
Tzipora Goldkorn, senior author of the research said, “With the five-year survival rate for people with lung cancer at a dismally low 15.5 percent, we hope this study will provide better insight into the identification of new therapeutic targets.”
The researchers found that after exposing different sets of human lung airways cells to cigarette smokes and hydrogen peroxide in laboratory and comparing the cells exposed to the smoke and hydrogen peroxide after incubating them for one or two days to look for the signs of cancer.
After comparing the two with unexposed cells the researcher established that the cells exposed to smoke and peroxide showed the same molecular marks of cancer development while the unexposed cells did not.
This study holds importance not only for fight against death due to smoking but also has given an opportunity to find treatment for cancer after knowing the agent responsible for it.
The research is published in the March issue of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) journal.
Recently several studies have put smoking as the single most preventable cause of death across the world.
A research done by Canada based Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) focusing mainly on the effects of smoking on Indians it is found that in India 10 lakh people will die annually due smoking.
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