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JFL if u think something pushed that heavily in the media and in schools from such a young age isn't a complete lie
If the food pyramid in school was entirely wrong, what makes u think anti-smoking campaigning isn't?
Part 1: The Black Lung Lie
Black lungs are not caused by tobacco smoke Another common misconception surrounding smoking tobacco is that the smoke in and of itself is capable of turning lung tissue black. This feat is actually physically impossible, however. The lung tissue can only turn black when it is either cancerous or necrotic, or when significant amounts of elemental carbon is inhaled for prolonged periods of time.
Where can you find elemental carbon? In coal mines, not in cigarettes. And guess what? Surgeons are unable to tell the difference between smokers' lungs and non-smokers lungs.
Here are some first-hand accounts from professionals in the medical field:
If the food pyramid in school was entirely wrong, what makes u think anti-smoking campaigning isn't?
Part 1: The Black Lung Lie
Black lungs are not caused by tobacco smoke Another common misconception surrounding smoking tobacco is that the smoke in and of itself is capable of turning lung tissue black. This feat is actually physically impossible, however. The lung tissue can only turn black when it is either cancerous or necrotic, or when significant amounts of elemental carbon is inhaled for prolonged periods of time.
Where can you find elemental carbon? In coal mines, not in cigarettes. And guess what? Surgeons are unable to tell the difference between smokers' lungs and non-smokers lungs.
Here are some first-hand accounts from professionals in the medical field:
Finally, here is a quote from Richard White's Smoke Screens:"Smoking does not discolour the lung." - Dr. Duane Carr, Professor of Surgery at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine
"I have examined thousands of lungs both grossly and microscopically. I cannot tell you from examining a lung whether or not its former host had smoked." - Dr. Victor Buhler, Pathologist at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City
"...it is not possible grossly or microscopically, or in any other way known to me, to distinguish between the lung of a smoker or a nonsmoker. Blackening of lungs is from carbon particles, and smoking tobacco does not introduce carbon particles into the lung." - Dr. Sheldon Sommers, Pathologist and Director of Laboratories at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York
"This notion of smoking causing the lungs to turn black can be traced back to 1948. Ernst Wynder, then a first-year medical student in St Louis, was witness to an autopsy of a man who had died of lung cancer and he noted the lungs were blackened. The sight roused his curiousity and he looked into the background of the patient - discovering that there was no obvious exposure to air pollution, but that the deceased had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years, he linked the two. Wynder then spent his career 'proving' cigarettes caused cancer, although he was forced to admit the data he had compiled was inaccurate (Wynder later published books containing slides of black, cancerous lungs, leading people to assume it was smoking that caused it. He later admitted he was wrong, though."


