Why do cigerettes cause lung cancer?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

your lungs have little tentical looking thingys in them that keep your lungs clean. these make you cough and get all the dust out of yr lungs. the tar from the smoke gets caught on these little things and sticks. it causes cancer, your lungs cant get it off

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∙ 15y ago

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