1. Respiratory System
By Kohdie DuhWierd, Airick DuhBoor, Britknee Derksie, Jenah Doomering, Sidknee Veindarhhouff

2. How does breathing in toxins affect your lungs?
Lung cancer is a main sickness you can get from your respiratory system; along with bronchitis, tuberculosis and phenomena. Particle pollution can affect the heart and the lungs and cause serious health effects. It also shortens the life expectancy of humans. Also other things like ozone(a colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor) can cause asthma and again that is a main cause of cancer getting into your lungs.
Fun fact:
the average person breathes times per minute

3. Emphysema condition in which the air sacs in the lungs are damaged or enlarged causing breathlessness.
The main causes of emphysema is:
Air pollution
Manufacturing fumes
Tobacco smoke
Marijuana smoke
Most people go for many years without noticing that they have emphysema. The main symptom is shortness of breath.
Having emphysema can lead to several different problems
Collapsed lung- it happens unexpectedly and can be life threatening
Heart problems- emphysema adds more pressure to the arteries that connect the heart and lungs. This can causes the heart to expand and weaken which leads to a condition called cor pulmonale.
Large holes in lung- these holes can take up as much space as half the lung, and this reduces the amount of space the lung expands.
Emphysema

4. How Breathing in Toxins are Bad for your Blood and other Organs?
As soon as a pollutant is inhaled it is absorbed by the blood and is then transported to the heart. Once it reaches the heart, the pollutants might start to build up or the pollutants will get passed down to other organs causing external damage.

5. What things in your home environment affect your respiratory system?
You may not know it, but there are many indoor pollutants that are in your home and workplace. Things like your furniture, synthetic carpets, and air fresheners contain very bad toxins that could take a toll on you and your respiratory system.
Lung cancer is a main sickness you can get from your respiratory system; along with bronchitis, tuberculosis and phenomena. Particle pollution can affect the heart and the lungs and cause serious health effects. It also shortens the life expectancy of humans. Also other things like ozone(a colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor) can cause asthma and again that is a main cause of cancer getting into your lungs.

6. Part 2
There are also multiple jobs that may increase the risk of having respiratory problems. Some jobs would be working as a cotton picker, as a miner, construction worker, quarry worker, stone cutter, sand blasters, mechanics, and any other jobs that would be around toxins.
In your heating room or AC room the amount of pollution in that room is highly concentrated. Your young children and elderly people are more likely to become sick with any respiratory problems because they are more likely to stay inside around those different chemicals.

7. How Harmful Substances Affect the Plant Life in our Environment?
There are multiple cigarette butts that get left everywhere, they are seen everywhere. It is said that there are 1.69 billion pounds of cigarette garbage in the world. The trees live when they take carbon dioxide and out oxygen, so if the trees are taking in smoke they can’t put out oxygen and can’t live and the certainly cannot give US the oxygen that we need to live. The plants also need a lot of oxygen and they need lots of fresh oxygen to live and if people keep smoking, the plants won’t be able to “breathe.” These toxins are also created by the amount of waste that we create per day, each of us create about 4.6 pounds of garbage every day and less than a quarter of it is recycled.

8. How does oxygen go from your lungs to your blood?
When you breath through your nose or your mouth, the air goes down your windpipe and into your lungs. The oxygen then passes through the bronchial and into the alveoli (air sacs). Through the thin wall of the alveoli the oxygen is passed down to the surrounding capillaries (blood cells). Hemoglobin which is inside the red blood cells helps to transfer the oxygen into your blood and then it is sent off from your heart, getting oxygen to the brain and to the rest of your body.

9. What happens when there is not enough healthy oxygen in your body?
Respiratory failure is when you’re not bringing enough oxygen or you are breathing in too much carbon dioxide or polluted air. If this happens the organs don’t get the oxygen they need to function properly so they will essentially start to shut down. If too much carbon dioxide or toxins are being brought to the organs it will result in the same thing; shutting down. THe treatment for the respiratory failure can depend on several things; how soon it is treated? And your overall health? The first step for treatment is to inhale pure oxygen, and that can be difficult depending on where you live. Also if there are any other respiratory issues you nay need the help of oxygen therapy or a ventilator.

10. Our air around us consists of (approximately):
-78% of NITROGEN
-21% oxygen
-1% ARGON
The Air in General
There are also many trace gases which are basically different polluted gases in our air:
-carbon dioxide
-methane gases
Other chemicals in our environment are:
-Formaldehyde:it is released by building materials
-Acrolein: is released from heating oil to really high temperatures, and from cigarette smoke
-Respirable particles: it is released from tobacco

11. Other Interesting Information
When there is a decrease in oxygen in the body it is called hypoxia, and when there is a complete loss of oxygen in the body/brain it is called anoxia. When you have gone 4 or more minutes without oxygen in the body it can be very fatal. When this happens the brain cells start to die and this can cause brain damage and ultimately death.
When a newborn breathes they breath at about 40 breaths per minute and when they sleep it slows down between 20 and 40 breaths per minute. An average aults breath between 12 and 16 breaths per minute, and when you add physical exercise to their day to day life an average adult will breath 45 breaths per minute.

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