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Video:What Smoking Leaves In Your Lungs

what smoking leaves in your lungs

by putting a cigarette on a vacuum you can see what it leaves in your lungs

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  • Date 5/12/2007
  • by srk

Video:Smoker Lungs Experiment

smoker lungs experiment

little experiment that shows what you`re doing to your lungs when smoking.

Video:Marijuana Lung Cancer Study Pt 1 Of 2

marijuana lung cancer study pt 1 of 2

pulmonary specialist and federal government researcher from ucla geffen school of medicine finds that marijuana does not cause lung cancer in his study on the effects of cannabis and the lungs. results of this study are discussed for the first time.

Video:Cigarette Lung Trash

cigarette lung trash

great advertisement.

Video:Get Your Lungs Back

get your lungs back

rather bizarre anti-smoking infomercial

Video:Radiohead - My Iron Lung

radiohead - my iron lung

my favourite radiohead song ever. love the switch at 1.55. brilliant band, brilliant performance, despite the vocals being re-recorded for broadcasting clarity. i'll stop uploading radiohead videos now.

Video:Who Has The Largest Lungs?

who has the largest lungs?

"we're using the internationally approved 'blow-up-the-balloon' test..." pfft, brainiacs...

Video:Effects Of Smoking On The Lungs

effects of smoking on the lungs

short video of all the dangers that cigarette smoking has on the body.

Video:Apocalypse Now - Do Lung Bridge

apocalypse now - do lung bridge

capt. willard and pbr streetgang enter the last army outpost on the nung river.

Video:Iraq Vet Dies After Receiving Cancerous Lungs in Transplant

iraq vet dies after receiving cancerous lungs in transplant

an iraq war veteran died after receiving cancerous lungs from a heavy smoker in a transplant.

matthew millington, 31, a corporal in the queen’s royal lancers, had the operation to save him from an incurable respiratory condition.

but the organs were from a donor who was believed to have smoked 30 to 50 roll-up cigarettes a day. a tumor was found after the transplant, and its growth was accelerated by the drugs that mr millington took to prevent his body rejecting the organs.

because he was a cancer patient, he was not allowed to receive a further pair of lungs, under hospital rules. the soldier had radiotherapy but died at home in stoke-on-trent in february last year.

his widow, siobhan, said: “all matthew wanted was another set of lungs. he said: ‘they have given me a dud pair, get me another set’. he thought he could beat it, but his condition deteriorated so fast from then.”

papworth hospital, cambridge, the country’s main heart and lung transplant center, carried out the operation. it said that early x-rays on the organs did not find any signs of cancer.

mr millington had learned that he had a serious lung condition in 2006 and was given two years to live unless he had a transplant.

a donor was found and the double lung transplant went ahead in april 2007. the cancer was discovered only six months after the operation, because of a lack of communication between radiographers and consultants. the tumor had grown from 9mm to 13mm in that period.

an inquest was told last week that an internal investigation at papworth pinpointed a string of problems, including difficulties with communication, record-keeping and patient handover.

in mr millington’s case a radiographer had failed to highlight the growth of the cancerous tumor.

discounting verdicts of neglect or misadventure, ian smith, the north staffordshire coroner, delivered a narrative verdict, recording that mr millington had died from “complications of transplant surgery”.

the hospital defended using smokers’ lungs for transplants, saying that all organs were screened rigorously.

speaking after the inquest, mr millington’s father lester, 61, said: “i have never contemplated further action. i wanted to get to the inquest but i was 99.9 per cent certain that nothing they did wrong was done wrong wilfully. it is a fact that 51 per cent of all lungs transplanted at papworth come from donors who smoked.

“without using such lungs many more people would die without receiving a transplant.”

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Video:Doctors 'Find Tree' in Man's Lung

doctors 'find tree' in man's lung


article submitted by master911.

a fir tree has been found growing inside a man's lung by surgeons who were operating on him for suspected cancer.

the tree, measuring 5cm, was discovered by russian doctors when they opened up artyom sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a tumour.

medical staff believe that mr sidorkin somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

the patient had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. doctors were convinced he had cancer.

'we were 100 per cent sure,' said surgeon vladimir kamashev from izhevsk in the urals. 'we did x-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. i had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.'

before removing the major part of the man's lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue taken in a biopsy.

'i thought i was hallucinating,' said dr kamashev. 'i asked my assistant to have a look: "come and see this - we've got a fir tree here".

'he nodded in shock. i blinked three times as i was sure i was seeing things.'

they believed the coughing of blood was caused by the tiny pine needles piercing blood capillaries. 'it was very painful. but to be honest i did not feel any foreign object inside me,' said mr sidorkin. 'i'm so relieved it's not cancer.'

the report appeared in popular tabloid komsomolskaya gazeta, and was picked up by russian news service novosti.

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Video:The Lung

the lung

a number of "college" kids do drugs.


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