The Effects of Smoke on Lung Cancer

Smoking and other things in cigarettes irritate the cells inside your lungs. That's going to trigger that inflammatory response because your body's like, what is going on? I shouldn't have this thing in my lungs. It's also messing with their DNA too. And when cells with broken basically DNA or altered DNA start dividing and creating new cells, they pass along that altered DNA. So, it's kind of a one-two punch just from cigarette smoke.