Skin colour clue to nicotine dependence

Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

Higher concentrations of melanin - the colour pigment in skin and hair - may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobacco-related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, according to scientists...

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