Studies on the effects of smoking are never positive. In this same vein, a piece of health news has illustrated how smoking cigarettes leads to emphysema. Sometimes understanding the details helps people quit the habit.
Tobacco smoke creates havoc in the lung cells, activates parts of the immune system that creates inflammation — which leads to life-shortening emphysema. That’s what researchers report about the path of toxic smoke in the lungs. Before, we thought emphysema was a non-specific response to smoking for a long time. But we know for the first time that emphysema is … Read More
