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Because they are very closely connected with your internal body and it's blood supply and also the external world with all its germs and bacteria. Your skin is also very much in contact with the outside world, but it has more protective mechanisms, like layers of epithelial tissues to ward off pathogens, germs, virus, and bacteria.

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The lungs can breathe in bad fumes from the air causing them to get infection etc.

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