Here’s another reason to drink green tea.

It may cut your chances of developing lunch cancer, even in smokers.

NBC reports that researchers compared green tea drinking habits of people with lung cancer to those without lung cancer.

Smokers and non-smokers who didn’t drink green tea were five times more likely to get lung cancer than those who regularly drank it. 

They say genes though may also affect play a role in green tea’s impact on lung cancer chances.