Smoking Is Actually More Dangerous Than Smog! Don’t Believe It? The Evidence Is Right Here

Smoking is actually more terrifying than smog!

This year's smog has been extremely prominent, frequently making headlines in various media! It has flooded social media, blinding people's eyes! As a result, various anti-smog measures have emerged. To prevent smog, primary and secondary school students have even been given time off. But is it really safe at home? How many parents do not smoke? You must know that smoking is more terrifying than smog, and it plays tricks on us!

Take a look at this person:

Cool and flashy?

Then take a look at the lungs of smokers, and I guarantee you won't be able to laugh anymore. Don't disbelieve it; we have the evidence. These are individuals who participated in health check-ups. From these participants, I discovered a unique symptom caused by smoking—the pulmonary congestion effect.

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Mild bilateral pulmonary congestion effect

Health check-up. Non-bedridden individuals, smoking enthusiasts. No respiratory symptoms. Crescent-shaped high-density shadows can be seen in the back of both lungs.

This symptom is called the congestion effect. Current literature explains the pulmonary congestion effect: long-term bedridden patients are prone to develop vascular congestion effects in the lower lobes of the lungs near the back due to the force of gravity, which appears as localized vascular thickening, disorder, and accumulation in CT images of the lungs in a supine position.

This person is not bedridden; he is a lively and normal person, so the congestion effect cannot be explained. My conclusion is that this congestion effect is only seen in smokers.

Based on numerous clinical cases, I have arbitrarily divided the crescent thickness into three groups: mild, moderate, and severe (this standard is my "self-made" diagnostic method).

Mild: Crescent thickness less than 1cm;

Moderate: Crescent thickness between 1cm-2.5cm;

Severe: Crescent thickness exceeding 2.5cm, affecting both lower lobes.

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Moderate bilateral pulmonary congestion effect

Health check-up. Non-bedridden individuals, smoking enthusiasts. Crescent-shaped high-density shadows can be seen in the back of both lungs, with the thickest part exceeding 1cm. No obvious respiratory symptoms.

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Severe bilateral pulmonary congestion effect

Health check-up. Non-bedridden individuals, smoking enthusiasts. Crescent-shaped high-density shadows can be seen in the back of both lungs, with the thickest part exceeding 2.5cm. The blood vessels in the lower lobes of both lungs are also thickened. Upon inquiring about the medical history, the individual felt short of breath after activity, thinking it was due to aging. But how old could they be? Not even 50! Now they are anxious and determined to quit smoking, constantly asking how to treat it. No one can save them! This change itself is a degenerative change that cannot be reversed. Human body parts can only be maintained, not replaced! How long can expensive replacements last?

Now look at this person, who also has severe bilateral pulmonary congestion effect:

Health check-up. Non-bedridden individuals, victims of secondhand smoke. Crescent-shaped high-density shadows can be seen in the back of both lungs, with the thickest part exceeding 2.5cm. There is a smoker in the family who often gets up at night to smoke a few puffs.

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Bilateral pulmonary congestion effect

Health check-up. Non-bedridden individuals, who have quit smoking for 2 years. The pulmonary congestion effect still does not disappear.

The prone position's congestion effect. We can understand that when this person stands up, there must be a congestion effect in the lower parts of both lungs!

Is there a theoretical basis for this phenomenon? Animal experiments have found that smoking can cause lung blood vessels to first constrict and then dilate—this may be the principle behind the congestion effect. Autopsy studies have shown that smoking can lead to smooth muscle and collagen fiber hyperplasia in the walls of small pulmonary arteries, narrowing the lumen, and as age increases and smoking volume increases, the tension in the vessel walls also increases, especially becoming more pronounced after the age of 41. According to my group of health check-up case studies, the congestion effect is inversely proportional to pulmonary emphysema; continuing to smoke will lead to a worsening of pulmonary emphysema, and the congestion effect may actually lessen until it disappears, leading to the lungs becoming like this:

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Severe pulmonary emphysema with pulmonary bullae formation

After decades of smoking, this person now feels short of breath even while sitting, with their lungs filled with bullae.

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Normal lung

Always looking at problematic lungs, take a look at this non-smoker's lung, which is a sight for sore eyes. This is the lung of a hospital director, with normal distribution and appearance of lung markings, and no abnormal density shadows in the lung fields.

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Conclusion

Smoking can cause pulmonary congestion effects and pulmonary emphysema. I believe that as long as one is a long-term smoker, there will be changes in the lungs! Anyone exposed to secondhand smoke will also have changes in their lungs! The congestion effect is a unique symptom of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke, and one of the unique signs of lung damage caused by smoking. In my clinical work, I have seen the youngest case of pulmonary emphysema at 15 years old, caused by a child being exposed to secondhand and thirdhand smoke from their father and grandfather. This is a summary of my years of clinical experience, and I welcome feedback from peers!

Smoking is more harmful than smog because smog is not present every day, and its harmfulness is well-known! Smoking is more terrifying than drugs because drugs face strict punitive measures! Only smoking is so reckless that no one can restrain it, and there are no laws to regulate it! Currently, smoking is merely a moral issue! I hope that one day it will rise to a legal level! I hope that the harm of smoking to health will no longer be just a slogan but a concrete action.

You may know better than I do what components are in cigarettes, so there is no need to elaborate! But how many people smoke every day, harming their own lungs while also hurting their family and innocent people.

People often say that ignorance is fearless! As a doctor, I can only see the lung damage caused by smoking and hope to "rescue" one person at a time. I hope that you who read this article will quit smoking immediately and persuade those around you to quit smoking, making non-smoking a habit and enhancing your quality!

For your health and the health of others, please quit smoking!