Difference Between a Healthy and a Cancerous Lung; It has been decades since people have been warned about smoking but smoking is not an addiction you can kick overnight and smokers have a heavy cost to pay. As you might already know, smoking causes cancer and other fatal diseases and medical professionals and experts have relentlessly wanted people against it and several studies have surfaced to warn people off. In fact, graphic surveys and research results have gone viral to alert people about the pitfalls of smoking.

But smoking remains one of the most dangerous diseases and unfortunately, more and more people are turning towards smoking, especially younger people. Needless to say, the no-smoking signs have been of no use. But there is a video which surfaced recently uploaded by a nurse which compares a non-smoker’s lung to a cancerous lung and it has gone viral within days. In fact, the video proves all of our fears regarding this addiction. Here’s looking into the viral video which is the talk of social media.

The subject
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that smoking still remains the most preventable cause of death in the United States. This means that the most horrific disease can actually be cured by the man himself. But smoking is a tricky addiction and there are several ways to get around the withdrawal. Did you know that every year, smoking kills more than 480,000 people in the States and around 41,000 deaths happen due to secondhand smoke?


The widespread tragedy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed some shocking statistics. Their research reveals that in 2016, around 37.8 million Americans were smoking cigarettes.



Though some of them were occasional smokers and though it is harmful, it is easier to quit smoking if you’re a leisure smoker. Out of that number, more than 75 percent were regular smokers. The problem is daily smokers have a really hard time kicking off the habit.



What is second-hand smoking?

It’s also called environmental tobacco smoke and affects thousands of people over the world. It’s basically the smoke that comes from any smoker around you and it is quite fatal, if not as deadly as first-hand smoke. It is a huge issue, especially in the US.


Who’s Amanda Eller?

Amanda Eller is a North-Carolina based nurse who currently works at a wellness hospital and an organization which strives to address the critical health issues developing the urban society. She uploaded a video which compares a normal human’s lung, someone who is not a smoker, to a cancerous lung. The differences are unbelievable and after seeing the video you won’t be able to take up a cigarette.



What’s in the video?
Amanda recently posted a video which shows the difference between a non-smoker’s lung and a smoker’s lung which is cancerous. The latter example belonged to a person who is a regular smoker, perhaps a chain smoker who smoked a whole pack of cigarettes every day for twenty years.



Amanda explains that the healthy lung is reddish and you can see the veins whereas the non-smoker’s lung is terribly dark and ashy and sickening.



What does Amanda say?
Amanda says that the lung in question has been affected by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and are cancerous. So, the lungs are not elastic anymore and when they are pumped they don’t hold up and they deflate.



Amanda held a pumping tube into the lungs to clearly show how exactly they functioned and how they are different. Oxygen was pumped into both these lungs but the cancerous one doesn’t stay inflated for a long. The smoker’s lung has no elasticity and it’s clear how it ceased o function properly.



Researchers conducted 141 studies from 1946 to 2015 and discovered that man who smoke just one cigarette a day still had a 48 percent more chance of developing heart diseases than non-smokers.