I am going to have a chest x-ray. Will it show that i am a smoker? (I am a smoker of 3 years)?

Answer 1

No, not after 3 years. In about 15 more it will be very interesting though. But you'll have other things to worry about by then ; )

Answer 2

An X-Ray can only show the damage that has been done to a lung or lungs. The fact that the damage is possibly due to smoking, does not, in itself, prove that the person is a smoker.
The following has no bearing on your question, but I add it for interest only:-
Smoking might influence 17 different sorts of cancer of which lung cancer is the most obvious and often. Besides this, cancer in the throat, gullet, mouth cavity, oesophagus, pancreas, stomach, kidney and bladder are also smoking diseases. Smoking also causes chronicle cough, bronchitis and other diseases on lungs. It influences other specific diseases like asthma and angina. Inhaling tobacco smoke is harmful also for the heart and veins, because nicotine is one of the leading causes of heart attack and tobacco smoke itself narrows coronary arteries. Smoking has lots of harmful consequences but they are not all so bad. It has been proved that the organism (The lungs) after giving up smoking, starts repairing the damage. Real recovery is seen within about 5 years after giving up smoking. And about 15 years later the mortality of ex-smokers is similar to the one of non-smokers. Two of the things that produce carbon monoxide are car exhaust fumes and cigarette smoke. In a test, cigarette smoke was mixed with haemoglobin solution and the results were looked at through a spectrophotometer. Then the carbon monoxide was pumped off and the results were looked at. The two readings were similar. What the similar readings mean is that if you are a smoker and inhale, some of your iron atoms will be permanently blocked with carbon monoxide and they won't be available for transporting oxygen. So, in a heavy smoker perhaps up to 15% of the iron atoms are so blocked. This means that the person is more unfit here and now, because his heart has to work harder to compensate for the number of iron atoms that are not available to transport oxygen through his tissues when he walks or runs.
I add a link that contains details of this subject, and a paragraph at the top right side referring to cigarette smoking and cancer.

http://www.ynhh.org/
healthlink/cancer/
cancer_2_01.html


Hope this helps
matador 89

Answer 3

It won't show your a smoker, not unless you have done some serious damage to your lungs already from smoking, but I don't think so. It will only show up things that may be wrong with your lungs or chest.

Answer 4

yes
cigarette smoke attracts inflammatory cells into the lung. Then, the inflammatory cells release substances called proteases. The proteases dissolve the proteins in the alveolar walls (septae) and thereby destroy the septae. As a result, the alveoli join together (coalesce) to form the larger, irregular, inefficient air sacs....or one big black spot on the x-ray picture

even people who don't smoke could have black spots due to 2nd hand smoke...

smoking...bad...

Answer 5

Off course , only our heart continues work from our birth to death , if tis stop means we are dead , Pls take care of your heart, quit somking , I was laso a somker for 12 years know i am stoped & happy helth life living.

Answer 6

Yes, it will show your lungs as black. But they probably already know. You can always tell a smoker by how they smell and how yellow their hands are. And usually they have quite a cough too. ~Jenna~

Answer 7

Not sure but I know that the physician was able to tell just from my breathing.

Answer 8

Yea you should see something that resembles a skull and cross bones.

Answer 9

yes. if some part is damaged by extra smoking

Answer 10

i will tell u how to see your lung color blow cig smoke in a white hankerchef