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Published online 13 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050613-3
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Cigarettes age your DNA
Smoking and obesity are linked to age-related chromosome damage.
It isn't news that eating fatty foods and smoking can shorten your life expectancy through heart attacks and cancer. But now a study shows that a lifetime of these unhealthy habits can directly 'age' DNA by years.
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