By posting his video on his social networks (click here to watch this video), Amanda Eller, a nurse in North Carolina (United States), was unaware that in a few days her images would have been shared by 560,000 people. It is true that they have something to mark the spirits. Healthy lungs on one side, lungs of a man who smoked for 20 years and died on the other after cancer.
Not only is the black tar-like color of sick lungs striking, but with the help of an artificial respirator, the young nurse shows how lungs attacked by tobacco have difficulty inflating on inspiration, compared to healthy lungs. She also specifies that before being affected by cancer, the smoking patient suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammation of the bronchi caused by smoking, which causes severe difficulty in breathing.
According to the National Cancer Institute, tobacco is the number one preventable risk factor for cancer mortality. He is responsible for 47,000 deaths per year, or 30% of cancer mortality in France.
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