Chain smokers of the world rejoice! Our good friend Phil has finally come to lend our wheezing, phlegm spitting asses a hand with the help of some crafty bioengineers:
The Philip Morris-funded North Carolina State researchers say the work could lead to less cancer-causing chewing tobacco. In large-scale field trials, they compared the levels of N-nitrosonornicotine, a chemical known as NNN, between GM tobacco plants and a control group. They found a six-fold decrease in NNN and a 50 percent overall drop in a whole class of nasty substances known as tobacco-specific nitrosamines.
Thank goodness this whole cancer problem is finally being addressed. Now make me tobacco with no tar that produces smokeable oxiracetam and idebenone and i'll be REALLY happy.
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