Healthy Lung Habits · Lungs
It stalls the cleaning crew and destroys exchange surface.
Smoke attacks the lungs at every level you've just learned. It paralyses the cilia that sweep your airways clean, inflames and narrows the tubes, and breaks down the walls between alveoli — merging many small sacs into fewer large ones.
There's more: it stalls the cleaning crew and destroys exchange surface. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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