Ciggyfree Blog

May 24, 2007 between the hours of noon and 11 pm EST.

Cheers! ~Ciggyfree Administration

http://health.howstuffworks.com/lung.htm
Your lungs are complex organs, but what they do is take a gas that your body
needs to get rid of (carbon dioxide) and exchange it for a gas that your
body can use (oxygen). In this edition of How Stuff Works, we will take a
close look at how your lungs work and how they keep your body’s cells
supplied with oxygen and get rid of the carbon dioxide waste. We will
explain some of the conditions and diseases that make breathing harder and
cause the lungs to fail. We will also explain why you can’t hold your breath
for a long time and why you cough or hiccup.

Smoker’s Lung Pathology
http://www.medicinenet.com/smokers_lung_pathology_photo_essay/article.htm
Cigarette smoking is associated with a wide variety of abnormalities
throughout the body that cause not only illness, but also, all too often,
death. Indeed, if all deaths from diseases related to smoking (lung disease,
heart disease, and cancers of many different organs) were considered, a case
could be made for cigarette smoking as the leading cause of death in
industrialized countries. Ironically, it is also the most preventable cause
of death in our society!