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23rd July 2008, 9:18am
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#1 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Tobacco Cures Cancer
Well, not exactly.
The tobacco plant is being used, somewhat ironically and after a bit of biotechnological jiggery-pokery, to produce large quantities of a patient-specific antibody (from the wording of the BBC article, I think they might mean antigen, but I haven't read the study yet) which will prime the body to attack a particular kind of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. They hope.
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23rd July 2008, 9:22am
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#2 | | borte, ikke glemt
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
Amazing.
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23rd July 2008, 9:27am
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#3 | | Larger Than Life
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
So if we eat cigarettes instead of smoking them, it'll reverse the effects of years of smoking? 
Al
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23rd July 2008, 9:28am
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
That line of thought leads straight to a comeback for chewin’ tobbacco.
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23rd July 2008, 9:28am
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#5 | | borte, ikke glemt
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
Tomacco!!!!!! 
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23rd July 2008, 1:15pm
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
interesting | |
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23rd July 2008, 9:06pm
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#7 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
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Originally Posted by Largest of Als  So if we eat cigarettes instead of smoking them, it'll reverse the effects of years of smoking? | This will probably be a headline based on this research coming to a Daily Mail near you soon.
Those scientists, eh? One minute it's bad for you, the other it's good for you. Sheesh.
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23rd July 2008, 9:32pm
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| Re: Tobacco Cures Cancer
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Originally Posted by LesMTS This will probably be a headline based on this research coming to a Daily Mail near you soon.
Those scientists, eh? One minute it's bad for you, the other it's good for you. Sheesh. | Do you know much about monoclonal antibody therapy? | |
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23rd July 2008, 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by Largest of Gregs Do you know much about monoclonal antibody therapy? | I understand the principles. I couldn't talk about specific examples off the top of my head, but if I looked them up or read about them I'd understand it.
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