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2. Smoker's macrophages - Wikipedia

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   Upon smoking, carcinogenic chemicals are inhaled, affecting the inflammation response. As inflammation plays an important role in inducing cancer, with smoking affecting the inflammatory response of macrophages in the lungs, the dysregulated inflammatory response poses a higher risk in developing cancer along the airway.

3. Regeneration in humans - Wikipedia

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   Nevertheless, this was a huge leap towards whole lung regeneration and transplants for humans, which has already taken another step forward with the lung regeneration of a non-human primate. [63] Cystic fibrosis is another disease of the lungs, which is highly fatal and genetically linked to a mutation in the CFTR gene.

4. 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 ...

5. Disturbing video shows what your lungs look like after ... - AOL

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   6.5 years = 2,374 days and 56,976 hours, or 3,418,560 minutes. 5,772 cigarettes per year for 54 years = 311,688 cigarettes. 3,418,560/311,688=11 minutes per cigarette.

6. Tar (tobacco residue) - Wikipedia

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   Tar is the name for the resinous, combusted particulate matter made by the burning of tobacco and other plant material in the act of smoking.Tar is toxic and damages the smoker's lungs over time through various biochemical and mechanical processes. [1]

7. Smoking and Health - Wikipedia

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   It reported on the negative health effects of tobacco smoking, finding that it was linked to the occurrence of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, and lung cancer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The release of the report was one of the top news stories of 1964, leading to policy such as the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 and the Public ...