the lungs are black like tar, the video shock

A shocking movie shows i lungs blackened by a heavy smoker. Instead of being a healthy pink, they are charcoal and extremely inflamed for decades and decades of tobacco abuse. The doctors of Wuxi People's Hospital of Jiangsu, in China, they extracted the organs after the death of a 52-year-old who had had multiple lung diseases. According to the statement, the man would have smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day in the last thirty years. The video, recorded by surgeons, has been seen over 25 million times on social media, with users who have called it "best anti-smoking spot ever ". He was charged by the hospital with the eloquent caption: "Do you still have the courage to smoke?" The patient was registered as a donor, but the doctors immediately realized that his lungs were absolutely unusable.

Professor Peter Openshaw, of the National Heart and Lung Institute, said the patient had suffered from pulmonary emphysema, disease that causes the organs to become inflamed and expand, causing severe breathing problems. "Many smokers in this country have lungs that look like this." Our team decided to reject these lungs for transplantation. If you are a heavy smoker, your lungs may not be accepted even if you decide to donate them after death, ”said Dr. Chen, an experienced lung transplant surgeon. "We Chinese people like to smoke. It would not be practical to say that we would not accept the lungs of all smokers, but there are strict standards. But look at these lungs: do you still have the courage to smoke? ".