Tobacco Problems
- Created by: HLeiper
- Created on: 08-04-14 12:41
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- Smoking Tobacco
- Damages wall inside alveoli, reducing SA causing emphysema
- Tar damages cilia in your lungs and trachea - hairs and mucus catch the dirt and clear the trachea - chest infections are more likely
- Tar irritates the bronchi and bronchioles - smokers cough or chronic brochitus
- Carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen in the body - heart rate increases leading to increase blood pressure, damaging artery walls, causing blood clots and increasing the risk of cornorary heart disease
- Carcinogens can lead to cancer
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