1. Smoking can seriously damage your lungs. 2. As for the workers, many like Harry Starratt brought legal claims, saying that their lungs had been damaged by the old Monokote spray. 3. As many as half of all patients whose lungs are damaged by breathing super-heated air develop pneumonia, which can be lethal, doctors said. 4. But researchers have recently shown that by ventilating a preemie with fluids called perfluorocarbons, they can supply oxygen to the tissues without damaging the lungs. 5. But, with long-term use, these machines may actually damage the lungs and cause them to collapse. 6. For the first round of chemotherapy, Armstrong was treated with the drug bleomycin, which could have damaged his lungs. 7. Her disease had progressed far enough to damage her lungs, creating a cavity to harbor the TB germs. 8. Her lungs were so damaged by the genetic disease cystic fibrosis that she had barely enough breath to walk across the room. 9. In particular, inhaled ozone can damage the lungs, according to the EPA. 10. In tuberculosis, for example, lungs are damaged not by the bacterium but by the immune response to the bacterium. |