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Aging affects all of the body's cells, tissues, and organs which in turn affect the functioning of all body systems. Changes in lung tissue near your airways lose their ability to keep the airways completely open. This causes the airways to close more easily. These changes in lung tissue allows air to get trapped in your lungs. The degradation of lung tissue does not allow enough ______

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The degradation of lung tissue does not allow enough oxygen which is required by the organisms for respiration and also less carbondioxode is removed from the body which caused damage to the organisms because carbondioxode is waste material that is produced during respiration of the cell. Suffocation occurs when the lung provides limited oxygen to the body.

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