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Study Finds No Safe Level of Smoking 
NIH Director Blog, December 13, 2016

Genetic Risk, Smoking Behavior And The Question Of False Reassurance
R Green, Huffington Post, November 2016

Cancer and Tobacco Use
Tobacco use causes many cancers, CDC Vital Signs, November 2016 

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• Study Finds No Safe Level of Smoking 
  NIH Director Blog, December 13, 2016
• Genetic Risk, Smoking Behavior And The Question Of False Reassurance
  R Green, Huffington Post, November 2016
• Cancer and Tobacco Use
  Tobacco use causes many cancers, CDC Vital Signs, November 2016
• DNA study lays bare devastating damage caused by smoking
  The Guardian, November 3, 2016
• Every year of smoking causes DNA mutations that make cancer more likely 
  LA Times, November 3, 2016
• Genome-Wide Interaction Analyses between Genetic Variants and Alcohol Consumption and Smoking for Risk of Colorectal Cancer
  J Gong et al, PLOS Genetics, October 2016
• Smoking may affect DNA for more than 30 years
  H Nichols, Medical News Today, September 21, 2016
• Implications of Personal Genomic Testing for Health Behaviors: The Case of Smoking.
  Olfson Emily et al. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2016 Jul
• Some racial, ethnic groups continue smoking cigarettes at higher rates
  CDC press release, August 4, 2016
• Smoking and caffeine consumption: a genetic analysis of their association.
  Treur Jorien L et al. Addiction biology 2016 Mar
• Largest Study Yet Shows Mother’s Smoking Changes Baby’s Epigenome
  Francis Collins, NIH Director, April 12, 2016
• DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis
  BR Joubert et al, Am J Hum Genetics, March 31, 2016
• Impact of first federally funded anti-smoking ad campaign remains strong after three years 
• Tobacco smoking-associated genome-wide DNA methylation changes in the EPIC study
  Srikant Ambatipudi et al, Epigenomics, February 2016
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