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Cilia are hair like structures that brush away particles in your lungs. When you smoke dust, pollen and other particles get stuffed into them and sit there. If they are there for a long time they form tar.
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What damage does smoking do to your lungs?
Smoking damages the lungs in several ways. It damages the cilia which are hair like structures which move contaminants from the lungs, therefore allowing the contaminants to remain. Smoking also damages the alveoli in the lungs, which are small air sacs that help deliver oxygen into the bloodstream and assist in removing carbon dioxide when you exhale.
Why does smoking harm the respiration system?
It causes tar buildup in the lungs. it destroys the cilia which help with cleaning the lungs. and it destroys the alveoli, which makes it hard to breath.
What will be the consequence if your cilia is damadged and more mucus is produced?
The cilia are the little hairs in your respiritory system that move the mucus up and out of your lungs. If you damage the cilia and produce more mucus, then you can't move mucus out of your lungs. If you quit smoking the cilia will heal completely after a few weeks.
How is smoking harmful to your lungs?
Your lungs are the reasons you body has Oxygen. In your lungs, we do produce mucus, which we cough up because of the cilia in our lungs. Smoking causes this cilia to not move the mucus out of your lungs which in turn causes problems.
What happens to a cilia cell after smoking?
Heavy smoking causes the cilia to die off. Which means the lungs are not cleaned properly.
What are the passages in the lungs that fill with tar during smoking?
Alveoli
What are the passages in the lungs that fill with tar during smoking called?
Alveoli
What does cilia do to contaminated mucous?
Cilia push the contaminated mucus out ward. so as to protect your lungs from damage.
Does coughing damage your lungs?
when coughing you damage the air sacs in your lungs reducing their surface area, but this if for when people cough constantly from smoking or something else
How can smoking damage the human heart?
No but it will damage the human lungs
What name is given to the special cells that remove grit and dust from the lungs and are destroyed by smoking?
Cilia
How can you use alveoi in a sentence?
The alveoli in Mr. Johnson's lungs were severely damaged from his years of smoking.
