Posts Tagged ‘lungs’

by Daysleeper724

Question: What happens when air pollution goes into the lungs?
What happens when Air pollution is inside the lungs? do the lungs shrivel up or get dried or what?

Answer:

Answer by jean ann j
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lung

I live in a big city with lots of air pollution. I love to run outdoors, but often times the pollution makes my throat and lungs hurt. It has been raining today, so will the rain clean the air out so I can run afterwards?

Is air pollution in the air reduced after it rains? If so, anybody know how long it takes for the pollution to build back up again?

As the Olympics draw nearer, the media covers numerous stories of horrible pollution in china. In shanghai, living and breathing the air for a week has been compared to smoking a whole pack of cigarettes! their pollution is so bad that its been theorized that some of their air pollution is being carried across the ocean, as far as the US! The fastest man in the world, from Ethiopia, refuses to run his event in the Olympics for fear of damage to his lungs. What does the pollution in China mean to you?