There are notable differences between smokers v/s normal lungs: Colour: A normal lung is pink in colour, whereas a smokers lung appears grey or black
7 However, decreased CYP2A6 activity may influence smoking and carcinogen exposure in any smoker, and the relationship of nicotine metabolism and CYP2A6 genotype to the lung cancer risk of smokers of European descent was recently established in the Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung consortium genome-wide association study data set
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