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The plaque from the smoke collect in the lungs and make the cilia un-able to move. (The cilia move viruses and mucous out of the lungs.) With them being disabled, it is harder to cough out the mucous prolonging the infection or causing a cold by being un-able to move mucous that hold viruses.

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