Smoking damages your lung in unimaginable ways. Lungs are very intricate and delicate organs that are responsible to clean the air that we inhale. Smoking causes deleterious effects to this cleaning and repairing properties of the lungs. Both active and passive smokers are affected by these deleterious effects.

Cigarettes, cigars and pipe smoke are said to contain more than 100 carcinogenic agents that causes cancer. One such carcinogenic agent, hydrogen cyanide destroys small hair like cilia present in the upper layers of the lung on the mucous layer. The mucous present in the lungs trap the dust particles and cilia sends these particles out by a wave like movement causing the particles to be expelled by a cough or spit.

While smoking, the hydrogen cyanide that enters the lung, debilitate the cilia making it weak to trap the dust particles and eventually destroying them. This makes a free pathway for the other carcinogenic and harmful dust particles to enter the lung and inhibiting the absorption of oxygen by the blood vessels.

Smoking also destroys the air sacs called alveoli present in the lung, making it hard to breathe. Alveoli that is responsible for air exchange loses its elasticity due to smoking. Smoking is not a weapon to destroy just your lungs, but a destructive weapon for your entire body. It is better late than never to quit smoking and improve your health and the environment.

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