Smoking makes human lungs stiffer like scar tissue
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A new study has provided some of the clearest evidence yet of how smoking physically damages human lungs. For the first time, scientists directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of real human lung tissue and found that smoking makes the lungs significantly stiffer, similar to the damage seen in fibrosis, a serious lung […] The post Smoking makes human lungs stiffer like scar tissue appeared first on Knowridge Science Report .