OK, I'm putting the record on again. It's true, smoking is bad for you. Like, monstrously bad. No matter how you look at it, it's just terribly, awfully bad.
But there's one thing missing from just saying smoking is bad: you really do have to physically look at it to understand just how evil these sticks of death are.
That's what one YouTube video attempted to do when showing the difference between a healthy lung, and a smokers lung. But with a catch.
The "after" lung isn't from decades of smoking, or even chain smoking. It's after smoking just 60 cigarettes. The result is incredible.
A teacher at Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial School, in Hong Kong made the video after noticing the secondary school students were taking up the habit.
But it's safe to say many more people have been possibly helped by teacher Ryan Aug's video, with its views surpassing a million views as of Dec. 21. It's clear why, once you compare the two lungs!
Au and the students placed a pig lung inside a plastic box, and used a tube to fill the lung with air. They put a cigarette into the trachea to act as a lung would when a person smokes a cigarette, and repeated it 60 times.
While a healthy lung is nice and pink, after smoking 60 cigarettes the other lung has turned yellowish-brown, and shows white patches.
The windpipe also shows signs of severe damage. While the healthy lung is white on the inside, 60 cigarettes have turned the other lung black.
If you can stomach it, you can watch the whole experiment below. And while you do, just remember this is only 60 cigarettes. Imagine what those lungs would look like after 6,000. (That might sound like a lot, but even smoking half a pack a day would get you to 6,000 in about two years!)
Main image via YouTube / ryan au
Collage image via YouTube / Gourav Choubey
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