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Smoking:

Tobacco is the main ingredient of a cigarette. The addictive chemical inside a cigarette is nicotine.Your lungs take in oxygen and take out carbon dioxide. Smokers who try to play sports develop shortness of breathing and cramps. The color of a smoker's lung is more likely to be black.Tar is a carcinogen that covers a smokers lung. Smoking causes straight away symptoms of coughing and bad breath. emphysema, cancer,and heart attacks are the long term illnesses that are associated with smoking. It is difficult to quit smoking because of the nicotine inside the cigarette. Smoking can cause a deadly disease which is lung cancer.

Asthma:

Asthma is a common condition for the lungs. An asthma attack is similar to a heart attack because they both usually involve the constricting of an interval vessel. The direct cause for an asthma attack is swelling and excess mucous in the airways. Inhalers can help people with asthma overcome their attacks. Living close to a smokestack would be dangerous for people who have asthma. Asthmatics should always carry their inhalers with them. Intense anger and stress can cause an asthma attack too.

How Do Your Lungs Work?:

When you breathe IN :- Your ribs are pulled up and out by your muscles and the Diaphragm is pulled down by your muscles by making the chest volume bigger. You breathe in Oxygen

When you breathe OUT :- Your muscles relax when you breathe out and also your diaphragm releaxes and the chest volume gets smaller and you breathe out Carbon Dioxide.