Can i please have a detailed answer. Thanks!
2006-09-30 15:06:55 · 8 answers · asked by Paul 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Since the chemical damage is bodywide, I'll focus on the physical damage. Smoking coats the insides of your lungs with fine particles, which makes the muocus lining more viscous and harder to expel while simultaneously impeding the transfer of oxygen. It's like spray-painting your bronchial tubes. Anyway, your lungs try to expel the foreign matter, and all this work wears them out.
2006-09-30 15:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by sciguy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The irritants in the smoke cause inflammation in the alveoli or small sacs of the lungs. The body's efforts to clean up the damage actually destroy some of the thin delicate walls between the sacs, causing them to enlarge, which ultimately can lead to emphysema. The enzyme most closely linked with this damage is a tryptase.
There is an increased risk of lung cancer, statistically 0.9 percent of smokers will develop lung cancer.
The carbon monoxide smokers inhale accelerates atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries which supply the heart muscle itself with blood.
The trifecta of disease. Now don' it look just so COOL having an inch long ash on a cigarette hangin' outta your mouth while squinting to avoid the smoke? Pure glamour, the tobacco companies would have you believe.
2006-09-30 22:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tar and all the other nasty chemicals sticking on the inner wall of the lung is pretty upsetting to the little fellows we call lung cells.
2006-09-30 22:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by firat c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the smoke is the part that damages the tissues in your lungs! the lung tissue is soft and gentle! when all the smoke build up! cancer, and you die from it! short and detail answer! just dont smoke!
2006-09-30 22:09:47 · answer #4 · answered by vaiosoft 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
smoking damages your lungs, by coating them with tar and other carcinogens. making it harder to breathe and do everyday tasks
2006-09-30 22:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by marisa_roman21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smoking damages your lungs, by coating them with tar and other carcinogens. making it harder to breathe and do everyday tasks
2006-09-30 22:15:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tyler L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever see how a smoker's fingers turn yellow? That;s what happens to your lungs and then you won't be able to breathe.
2006-09-30 22:11:02 · answer #7 · answered by mabell1025 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it does and second hand smoking is bad too
its bad for everything
2006-09-30 22:14:09 · answer #8 · answered by ilovemydogii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋