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How Your Lungs Work

Submitted: Jun 25, 2008 - Singer Amy Winehouse was released from the hospital Monday after a weeklong stay. The doctors found early traces of emphysema, a lung disease caused primarily by smoking. What would happen to Winehouse if her lungs gave out?

Your lungs are complex organs, but what they do is take a gas that your body needs to get rid of (carbon dioxide) and exchange it for a gas that your body can use…

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