OK,
weird topic…I get it.
But
my heart goes out to smokers, especially those who smoke so much and know only
next to nothing about what harm they are doing to their body systems.
So,
I would love to educate in a few sentences.
First,
the airways are lined by mucus.
Secondly,
there’s this other lining, known as epithelium on all body tissues, and its of
several types. Now, repeated smoking episodes cause the epithelial lining of
the lungs (ciliated columnar epithelium) is transformed to a stronger type of
epithelium (squamous epithelium).
If
you think stronger always means better, you are fatally wrong in this case,
because here, stronger means less protective but more adaptive to smoke. In actual
fact, the tissue metaplasia (i.e. change from one cell type to another) seen
here is a double-edged sword, because though it causes the respiratory system
to have better survival chances in smokers, it still predisposes that person to
the development of lung cancer. And many of us know that cancer spreads like
wild-fire.
Those
are just a few disadvantages of smoking.
A
little advice: Don’t smoke for fun if you do not want your lungs to be lost to
you…a word, they say is enough for the wise.
But
sometimes, even the wisest of us need more than a word…don’t we?
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