Smoking and its illnesses

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Carbon monoxide -combines with haemoglobin -reduces oxygen amount carried by blood cells
Tar -collects in the lungs -full of toxic chemicals -some toxic are carcinogens; make tumours more likely
Low birth weight babies low oxygen in the blood of pregnant women deprives the fetus of oxygen, leading to a small baby at birth
cilia -little hair-like structures in the lungs -clears lungs from toxins
Smoker's cough cilia is damaged and can't clean the lungs excess mucus begins to build up and sticks to air passages causing a terrible cough with phlegm
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