All you anti-smoking fanatics out there will hate this story…

CNN recently reported about a study where researchers say there is a genetic link to smoking addiction as well as higher rates of lung cancer if you do smoke. This may explain why people who smoked for years never get lung cancer while others who only smoke for a short time gets the dreaded disease.

The risk of getting lung cancer just from smoking alone without any kind of genetic variation is much lower than those with genetic variations that increases your risk of getting lung cancer from smoking.

The researchers also found that people who have these variants are also more likely to smoke more and become more addicted. There's something about these genes that dictate how your body reacts to nicotine.

So, I suppose now the anti-smoking crowd can blame the tobacco companies for altering the DNA of children to make them better customers.

We have known from just about the beginning of the anti-smoking hysteria there was more to it besides our health. I believe the "money" part of the equation has been pretty well defined, in that there is lots of money to be made from pushing the anti-smoking agenda. And, of course, for these socialists to get more of your money, they needed the "jurisdiction" to reach into your wallets. They're getting more and more of that every day.

Now, this study might expose a whole new "control" issue that goes far beyond the nanny state. If there is a DNA component, that's going to give the Eugenics movement new fodder for suggesting improving human hereditary traits through selective breeding, prenatal testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering.