Similarly, the long-term exposure (up to 12 weeks) of human bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells can be employed to show that the functional and molecular changes linked to lung carcinogenesis are less pronounced following cMRTP aerosol than cigarette smoke exposure [80]
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