Men who Smoke may Risk Erasing their Y Chromosomes that Produces Boy Child - New Study

So, if you are a avid cigarette smoker who is unmarried or yet to have a boy child, you had better rethink on this new study.

Besides lung cancer, which is caused by smoking and is often fatal, recent study found an association between Y chromosome loss and a shorter life span, as well as a higher risk of multiple cancers. 

 

Male smokers are three times more likely than non-smoking men to lose their Y chromosomes, a new study in the journal Science, researchers at Sweden's Uppsala University found.
 

Since only men have Y chromosomes, the finding offers a possible answer to why smoking is a greater risk factor for cancer among men than women.

Women have two X chromosomes; males have an X and a Y.

 

'There is a correlation between a common and avoidable risk factor, that is smoking, and the most common human mutation -- loss of the Y chromosome,' said Jan Dumanski, an Uppsala professor who worked on the study.

 

'This ... may in part explain why men in general have a shorter life span than women and why smoking is more dangerous for men.

 

'This discovery could be very persuasive for motivating smokers to quit.' 

So, note that!!