[Study on influence of cigarette smoking on the mutagenicity of urine. I. Influence of cigarette smoking on the mutagenicity of urine in healthy smokers and bladder cancer patients].

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We studied the mutagenicity of urine of healthy smokers and smokers with bladder tumors by the Ames test. The 41 healthy smokers studied showed a significant increase in urinary mutagenic activity compared to the 24 passive smokers and the 22 non-smokers, but there was no significant difference between the passive smokers and non-smokers. In the 5 healthy subjects, the urinary mutagenic activity increased in...

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