Chinese surgeons recently unveiled images of a smoker's lungs, originally removed for organ donation. The "best anti-smoking ad ever", according to netizens.
If you needed another reason to quit smoking, you should look at these pictures. Chinese doctors at Wuxi People's Hospital in Jiangsu, China, recently removed the lungs from a donor who died at the age of 52 and was on the organ donor list. Unfortunately, these turned out to be unusable . Normally all pink, the lungs of this patient had been completely blackened by thirty years of smoking.
“The patient had not undergone a CT scan before his death. He was declared brain dead and his lungs were donated shortly thereafter , explains Dr. Chen, a surgeon who specializes in lung transplantation. Initial oxygen index tests were fine, but when we removed the organs, we realized we wouldn't be able to use them .
The doctors, on the other hand, took the opportunity to film the organs. The video was then posted on Facebook with the following caption:"Do you still have the courage to smoke? ". These images, seen by tens of millions of Internet users, have been called "the best anti-smoking advertisement of all time “.
The Chinese are directly concerned. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 300 million people smoke in the country, accounting for almost a third of the number of smokers in the world. And it is not without consequences. Also according to the WHO, a person dies every 30 seconds in China because of smoking.
Also remember that in France, in 2018, 32% of adults still smoked tobacco. On the other hand, a steady drop in consumption is recorded with more than 1.5 million fewer smokers compared to 2016.
It is also useful to remember that the toxic smoke of cigarettes does not attack only the lungs, it is the entire respiratory system who is concerned. The tar particles are deposited in the bronchi and lungs, while carbon monoxide attaches to red blood cells, disrupting oxygenation throughout the body. Without forgetting acetone , which leads to inflammation of the bronchi.
The consequences for the body are then dramatic. Smokers expose themselves to infectious diseases (bronchitis, flu or pneumonia), or inflammatory diseases . Without forgetting the cancer risks (throat, bronchi, lungs, among others).
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