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The plaintiffs claimed the company's health plan discriminated against employees by imposing a tobacco surcharge without providing a reasonable alternative standard as required by law
Every year, more than 480,000 people die in the United States due to tobacco-related diseases
Professor Sir Mike Stratton, joint lead author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: The genome of every cancer provides a kind of archaeological record, written in the DNA code itself, of the exposures that caused the mutations that lead to the cancer
These contained lower levels of some of the major carcinogens found in cigarette smoke, such as tobacco-specific nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
This reduces the bodys ability to effectively transport oxygen and can lead to lower energy levels and shortness of breath