tupakkii

Vieläkö joku jaksaa noilla huuhaakuvilla pelotella? Ne ovat pelkkää propagandaa jostain 70- tai 80-luvulta. Keuhkot kyllä puhdistuvat itsestään, ja myös tupakoitsijan keuhkot ovat ruumiinavauksissa täysin terveen näköiset.

http://www.lcolby.com/b-chap8.htm

"A common myth about smoking assert that the lungs of smokers become brown or even black from years of accumulation of tars and goo. Not true, according to Wray Kephart. Mr. Kephart presently works as an engineer but he previously worked in a hospital, performing autopsies, most of which were paid for by insurance companies, seeking to determine whether the deceased committed suicide, or died from "natural causes". Kephart tells me that he's done approximately 1560 autopsies, and he's seen some strange things, such as the lungs of auto painters, which were "effectively sealed with catalyzed lacquers".

Kephart insists, however, that it is normally impossible to tell, from autopsy, whether the deceased was or was not a smoker. Upon resection, the lungs are always clear, unless the deceased lived in a large city where there was significant industrial pollution. In that event, carbon deposits may be found, but these are unrelated to smoking. So the "brown lungs" myth is exactly that: a myth. "