How Smoking Effects The Lungs?

Cancer of the lungs is largely due to smoking. Smoking is the primary cause behind a condition called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Patients with this condition find it very difficult to breathe because their airways have become so obstructed. One of the gases in cigarette smoke is carbon monoxide. This gas interferes with the process of oxygenation of blood in the lungs. In fact if you inhale too much carbon monoxide you will suffocate and die.The effects of cigarette smoking disturb this balance within the lungs. Tar becomes deposited in the bronchiole tubes, plugging them up close to the air sacs. The lungs work to rid the tubes of tar by stimulating its owner to cough. Meanwhile, gas exchange is hampered because nicotine has constricted the blood vessels, pumping the blood too far away from the air sacs.

Smoking causes change in lungs and its air ways. Colds and pneumonia
are acute changes. The lungs and air ways get irritated and inflamed. They become narrow and reduce the air flow. As you smoke your lungs age faster. When lung tissues are destroyed due to the tobacco smoke, number of air spaces and blood vessels also decrease and less amount of oxygen is carried to the body. The cigarette cells transform the normal cells into cancerous cells.

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Smoking is more harmful for your body. By enlarging the cells producing mucus in your lungs & airways. Your lung gets inflamed & irritated, narrowing & reducing the airflow. Chronic changes are those that happen slowly & last destroying your lungs.