How smoking affects your Lungs?
Smoking regularly not only does affect your lungs but it also affects the functioning of your Lungs. Expert Pulmonologists at KRIMS Hospitals, (which is considered as the best multispeciality hospital in Nagpur when it comes to Pulmonology and Orthopaedics) say that 90% of Lung Cancer are linked with cigarette smoking. Smoking creates changes in the respiratory system which are reversible sometimes but most of the times they are irreversible. A lit cigarette releases chemicals called as carcinogens. The most notorious carcinogens include Nicotine, cyanide, benzene. Methanol, Tar etc. Many poisonous gases like carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrosamines polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons etc are also present in cigarette smoke. Whenever you inhale smoke, the smoke passes through the windpipe and then reaches the lungs. Because of the toxic chemicals that are present in cigarette smoke, your lung tissues get irritated. Smoking also affects the people around you too. Passive smok