Tea may help prevent cancer

DRINKING green tea may help protect smokers from lung cancer.

Scientists found smokers who drank at least one cup a day of the antioxidant-rich beverage were almost 13 times less likely to develop the disease than those who didn’t.

Among smokers and non-smokers combined, drinking green tea led to a more than five-fold lower risk of lung cancer.

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