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Describe how tar accumulates in the respiratory system and how it affects the lungs.

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Tar, when in the lungs, coats the cilia causing them to stop working and eventually die, causing conditions such as lung cancer as the toxic particles in tobacco smoke are no longer trapped by the cilia but enter the alveoli directly.
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It covers the cilia which causes your lungs to stop working the way it is and then die like how the healthy lungs tissues r first all good but then when tar from cigarette smoke comes in it makes it a smokey lung and when you breathe it in with your damaged lungs, it will kill you eventually

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