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Reduced risk of lung cancer
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Dr I-Hsin Lin, of Shan Medical University, found that among smokers and non-smokers, people who did not drink green tea were more than five times as likely to get lung cancer than those who drank at least one cup of green tea a day.
Among smokers, those who did not drink green tea at all were more than 12 times as likely to develop lung cancer than those who drank at least a cup a day.
Researchers then analysed the DNA of people in the study and found certain genes appeared to play a role in the risk reduction.
Green tea drinkers, whether smokers or non smokers, with certain types of a gene called IGF1, were far less likely to develop lung cancer than other green tea drinkers with different types of this gene.
Yinka Ebo, of Cancer Research UK, said the findings should not be used as an excuse to keep smoking.
"Smoking tobacco fills your lungs with around 80 cancer-causing chemicals. Drinking green tea is not going to compensate for that.
"Unfortunately, it's not possible to make up for the harm caused by smoking by doing other things right like eating a healthy, balanced diet.
"The best thing a smoker can do to reduce their risk of lung cancer, and more than a dozen other cancer types, is to quit."
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