Cilia Smoching Research Paper

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Smoking affects the cilia by clogging them, impairing the ‘cleaning system’ in your lungs. The cilia are a hair-like structure that lines our breathing tubes and act as filters to clean our air passages. Once the cilia are damaged, the mucous membrane tends to give off a large amount of mucous, which results in the famous smoker’s cough because you have to be the one to cough up the gross stuff because you don’t have a cleaning system anymore. The mucous that the mucous membrane amasses is normally swept away by the cilia, but since the cilia is damaged the mucous will continue to increase because there is nothing getting rid of it and it will make it harder to breathe, as well as, there will be a loss of elasticity. Lost elasticity causes

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