Lungs Aren’t Made For Smoke!

Lungs are nature’s smart way of allowing you to inhale fresh air and exhale stale air. So you are right if you guessed that the fresh air is filled with oxygen; fuel to fire up blood through your veins and the stale air, carbon dioxide, and other waste your lungs and body do not really need.

By Azore Opio

Most of the cigarette smoke smokers inhale remain in their lungs.

Smoking does not only hold you under a very powerful addiction, but also causes the smoker to lose hundreds of francs for thousands of cigarettes a year. Then with every puff, more than 4.000 poisons including tar and a horrible body smell and bad breath. 4.000 including carbon monoxide and nicotine; poisonous substances lungs aren’t made for.

Whenever you inhale cigarette smoke and tar, your moist lungs trap 90% of the deadly life-robbing substances.

Smokers practically paint their pinkish lungs with black tar; a slow but sure journey to the world of cancer, and eventually death. Apart from painting black their lungs, smokers use the same tobacco brush to paint their fingernails, their lips, tongues, throats, windpipes and intestines. Great art! But the microscopic things that happen in the lungs are far worse than the external paint.

Toxic ominous chemicals in cigarette smoke destroy cilia (broom-like tiny airs) that sweep mucous, and mucous begin to accumulate in small airways. Rotting cilia! What do you expect? Loads of mucous! The lungs and airways inside them narrow; mucous is not cleaned out, the lungs clog, get irritated, inflamed and easily infected. This hampers breathing and caused the characteristic rasping smoker’s cough. The smoker is thus exposed to infection due to loss of the cleaning mechanism of the cilia. In fact, the abnormal cells that develop are of the cancer family. In the meantime, smoke rips and wrinkles the lungs out of shape like a wringed dirty floor rag, running their elasticity to inflate and deflate.

Smoking is a miserable way to live and a slow painful way to die. So love your lungs and keep them free of smoke.