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Smoking and its illnesses
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- 1Carbon monoxide-combines with haemoglobin
-reduces oxygen amount carried by blood cells - 2Tar-collects in the lungs
-full of toxic chemicals
-some toxic are carcinogens; make tumours more likely - 3Low birth weight babieslow oxygen in the blood of pregnant women deprives the fetus of oxygen, leading to a small baby at birth
- 4cilia-little hair-like structures in the lungs
-clears lungs from toxins - 5Smoker's coughcilia 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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- Gcse Science Flashcards on Smoking and its illnesses, created by bonyadi on 25/04/2015.
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