Broccoli helps prevent cancer in smokers: study

Updated Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:28 am TWN, Reuters

Broccoli helps prevent cancer in smokers: study

WASHINGTON -- Broccoli and similar vegetables appear to offer special protection from cancer for smokers, researchers reported on Tuesday.

They found that former smokers and, especially, people still smoking heavily got special benefits from eating the vegetables.

“The most significant effect was in heavy smokers,” Li Tang of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. People who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day were considered heavy smokers.

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