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Can nicotine destroy cilia

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What can destroy or paralyze cilia?

Nicotine can cause harm to the cilia because it paralyzes them. Vapor and marijuana smoke also can cause adverse reactions to cilia.


What does toxic cigarette smoke do to the body?

The tar and nicotine numb the cilia. When the cilia cannot function, impurities are not removed from the nasal passage. Smoke also harms the alveoli (tiny air sacs) so that the exchange of air in the lungs is impeded.


What chemical substances in tobacco can destroy cells?

You think probable to nicotine.


Cilia prevent the entrance of pathogens into the body by?

cilia prevents the entrance into the body by pathogen by constantly beat toward the outside of the body. If it is in your throat it will beat it toward your stomach so stomach acid can destroy the pathogen.


Do smokers become addicted to tar?

No. The "tar" is a sticky residue left when smoke dissolves in the fluid of the lungs. It is not an addictive substance like nicotine, and is only slowly removed from the tissues. Because it can prevent the cilia from cleaning the air in the lungs, and allow toxic substances to reach the alveoli, it is one of the most carcinogenic ingredients in tobacco smoke.


How does nose cilia fight pathogens to protect the body?

You really don't have nose cilia; you have nasal hairs that act as a trap for things you breathe in.If anything gets past them, they will then meet the cilia. Their job is to move the mucus that your tract makes. The mucous gets embedded with these particles. The cilia then move the mucus and particles up and out.You swallow these and your stomach acids destroy all of it. The cilia are like a janitor who always sweeps up the messes. If these are destroyed (smoking), the whole thing comes to a halt, and you then have to try to cough and pull up this now thickened mess.


Blepharisma have cilia or flagella?

cilia


Does Balantidium coli have cilia?

It has cilia


Is the Stentor a Cilia or Flagella?

Cilia


Do potato have cilia?

No plants have cilia.


What structure allow the paramecium to move?

The cilia cause the paramecium to move.


Does carbon monoxide cause lung cancer?

Carbon Monoxide is generally created when combustibles burn. It is not known to cause cancer, although carbon monoxide poisoning can have many symptoms and can cause loss of consciousness and death. See this article at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/co/faqs.htm