Word: aminophenols
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...quit for a while during the experiment, some of whom did not smoke but took it up for a while for the sake of science. The results were the same in both groups: men who were using cigarettes excreted in their urine abnormally large amounts of an ortho-aminophenol known to be capable of causing cancer. Going off cigarettes reversed the effect. The researchers' conclusion: inhaling smoke into the lungs, a practice that would seem to have no bearing on cancer of the bladder, is directly related to that disease through the complex chemistry of human metabolism...
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