Cigarette Smoking: Objective Evidence for Lung Damage in Teen-Agers
- 14 May 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 172 (3984) , 741-743
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.172.3984.741
Abstract
High school students with 1 to 5 years' smoking experience have excessive cough, sputum production, and shortness of breath. When maximum expiratory flow is plotted against maximum expired volume, the curves of nonsmokers and smokers differ in shape. The smokers have lower flow rates at mid-vital capacity and at lower lung volumes. This probably reflects small airway obstruction in the smokers.Keywords
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