How does smoking affect my lungs and breathing?

 

Every cigarette you smoke damages your breathing and scars your lungs. Smoking causes:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that gets worse over time and causes wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and other symptoms
• Emphysema, a condition in which the walls between the air sacs in your lungs lose their ability to stretch and shrink back. Your lung tissue is destroyed, making it difficult or impossible to breathe.
• Chronic bronchitis, which causes swelling of the lining of your bronchial tubes. When this happens, less air flows to and from your lungs.
• Pneumonia
• Asthma
• Tuberculosis 

People with asthma can suffer severe attacks when around cigarette smoke.

Smokers are liable to  DIE young!!!!!