robbster 17 Feb 2007 07:57 pm
How Your Lungs Work
http://health.howstuffworks.com/lung.htm
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
http://www.medicinenet.com/smokers_lung_pathology_photo_essay/article…
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.
Updated Lung Reports (Am
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22542
Smoking and your lungs (.pdf format)
http://patienteducation.upmc.com/Pdf/SmokingLungs.pdf
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:
http://www.lung.ca/protect-protegez/tobacco-tabagisme/facts-faits/hur…
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.
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~robbster
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
~John Powell
