By dogma1138
The latest Nobel prize in Chemistry might be a good start, more specific examples can be like specific (and apparently fairly recent) mutations in the XRCC1 gene that greatly reduce the risk of bladder cancer (which smokers have 3-5 times greater chance of contracting) in smokers.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal….
And there are probably 100’s of other studies of various examples, our bodies constantly evolve to adapt to new environmental factors smoking is a fairly recent one but is still something that you could evolve to live with, not that we should count on that tho…
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428157
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