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  2. Smoker's macrophages - Wikipedia

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    The risks of morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases are significantly reduced in 1 year and become comparable with non-smokers after 5 years of quitting. [20] Meanwhile, the life expectancy after smoking cessation increased by 10 years with the reduced risks of these diseases. [28]

  3. Lung - Wikipedia

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    The extracellular matrix maintains lung elasticity; the basement membrane is associated with alveolar epithelium and is important in the blood-air barrier. The deficiency is associated with functional defects and disease states. Vitamin A is crucial in the development of the alveoli which continues for several years after birth. [61]

  4. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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    The risk of lung cancer decreases almost from the first day someone quits smoking and it drops by 50% after 10 years of smoking cessation. [17] Healthy cells that have escaped mutations grow and replace the damaged ones in the lungs. In the research dated December 2019, 40% of cells in former smokers looked like those of people who had never ...

  5. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Smoking most commonly leads to diseases affecting the heart and lungs and will commonly affect areas such as hands or feet. First signs of smoking-related health issues often show up as numbness in the extremities, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and ...

  6. Smoking-related interstitial fibrosis (SRIF) - Wikipedia

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    It is caused by cigarette smoking. [1] [2] The term SRIF was coined by Dr. Anna-Luise Katzenstein (a pathologist) and colleagues in 2010 in a study of lung specimens surgically removed for lung cancer. [3] Since then, other investigators have confirmed the same abnormality in the lungs of a subset of smokers. [4] [5]

  7. Emphysema - Wikipedia

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    Centrilobular emphysema is the most common type usually associated with smoking, and with chronic bronchitis. [17] The disease progresses from the centrilobular portion, leaving the lung parenchyma in the surrounding (perilobular) region preserved. [23] Usually the upper lobes of the lungs are affected. [17]

  8. Third-hand smoke - Wikipedia

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    Third-hand smoke is contamination by tobacco smoke that lingers following the extinguishing of a cigarette, cigar, or other combustible tobacco product. [1] First-hand smoke refers to what is inhaled into the smoker's own lungs, while second-hand smoke is a mixture of exhaled smoke and other substances leaving the smoldering end of the cigarette that enters the atmosphere and can be inhaled by ...

  9. File:What Smoking Does to Your Lungs - The Cold Hard Facts ...

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    English: Fact: When it comes to your lungs, the effects of smoking include both immediate and long-term damage. Français : Description des effets de la cigarette sur les poumons . Беларуская: Як курэнне тытуню ўплывае на твае лёгкія .