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Reduction in oxidatively generated DNA damage following smoking cessation.

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Results from this analysis suggest that cigarette smoking contributes to oxidatively induced DNA damage, and that smoking cessation appears to reduce levels of specific damage markers between 30-50 percent in the short term.
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Background Cigarette smoking is a known cause of cancer, and cancer may be in part due to effects of oxidative stress. However, whether smoking cessation reverses oxidatively induced DNA damage unclear. The current study sought to examine the extent to which three DNA lesions showed significant reductions after participants quit smoking.

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Smoking and increased Alzheimer's disease risk: A review of potential mechanisms

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Occurrence, Biological Consequences, and Human Health Relevance of Oxidative Stress-Induced DNA Damage

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Mononuclear leukocyte DNA damage and oxidative stress: the association with smoking of hand-rolled and filter-cigarettes.

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The influence of active and passive smoking during pregnancy on umbilical cord blood levels of vitamins A and E and neonatal anthropometric indices

TL;DR: An inverse association between smoking behaviour during pregnancy and birth length was observed, with shortest length in active smokers followed by passive smoking mothers, and the observed increase in umbilical cord serum levels of vitamins A and E may subserve antioxidative processes in response to tobacco smoke-induced oxidative stress.
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Tobacco smoke: involvement of reactive oxygen species and stable free radicals in mechanisms of oxidative damage, carcinogenesis and synergistic effects with other respirable particles.

TL;DR: Results showed that the semiquinone radical system has the potential for redox recycling and oxidative action and proved that aqueous cigarette tar (ACT) solutions can generate adducts with DNA nucleobases, particularly the mutagenic 8-hydroxy-2’-deoxyguanosine (a biomarker for carcinogenesis).
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Role of oxidative DNA damage in cancer initiation and promotion.

TL;DR: Within DNA, hot-spots of oxidative modification and subsequent mutation have been described, and some specificity appears as compared to other agents that can lead to modification of DNA, i.e. aflatoxin and benzo[a]pyrene.
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Cigarette smoking induces an increase in oxidative DNA damage, 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, in a central site of the human lung

TL;DR: It is suggested that oxidative DNA damage is induced in lung DNA by cigarette smoking.
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