You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute,
Without even thinking about it.
When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up — again, without you thinking about it.
You breathe so regularly that it is easy to take your lungs for granted.
You can’t even stop yourself from breathing if you try!
Smoker’s Lung Pathology Photo Essay
This photo essay will focus on smoker’s lung. The term “smoker’s lung” refers to the structural and functional abnormalities (diseases) in the lung caused by cigarette smoking.
First, the normal structure and function of the lung will be described and illustrated. Then, the structural and functional abnormalities caused by smoking. will be described and illustrated.
http://www.medicinenet.com/smokers_lung_pathology_photo_essay/article…
All About Smoking (ALA)
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22938
Contains the following topics of interest:
- Smoking Fact Sheet
- Data and Statistics
- Secondhand Smoke Fact Sheet
- Secondhand Smoke and Children Fact Sheet
- Secondhand Smoke and Your Family
- Cigar Smoking Fact Sheet
- International Tobacco Use Fact Sheet
- Smoking Among Older Adults Fact Sheet
- Image Comparison of Healthy Lung to Lung with Emphysema
- Smoking Policies in the Workplace Fact Sheet
- Tobacco-Free Schools Fact Sheet
- Tobacco Product Advertising and Promotion Fact Sheet
How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs
Smoking damages your lungs natural cleaning and repair system and traps cancer-causing chemicals in your lungs.
Smoking destroys the tiny hairs (cilia), which line the upper airways and protect against infection. Normally, there is a thin layer of mucous and thousands of these cilia lining the insides of your breathing tubes.
The mucous traps the little bits of dirt and pollution you breathe in, and the cilia move together like a wave to push the dirt-filled mucous out of your lungs. Then you cough, swallow, or spit up the mucous, and the dirt is out of your lungs.
When your lungs’ natural cleaning and repair system is damaged, germs, dirt and chemicals from cigarette smoke stay inside your lungs. This puts you at risk for chronic cough, chest infections, lung cancer and COPD.
View a Bronchoscopy in a Patient with Lung Cancer
The patient is a 57 year old, with a 75 pack year history of smoking, who was found to have a carcinoma in the upper portion of his right lung.
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~ John Powell
Click to learn How the Lung’s Work at HowStuffWorks.com
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