Lungs 101

The Difference Between Healthy Lungs and Smokers' Lungs lungs This chart of the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM shows how you breathe Breathing is the process that brings oxygen in the air into your lungs and moves oxygen and lungs Your lungs do more than move oxygen in and carbon dioxide out of the body They also act as filters Mucus in your lungs catches and holds dust, germs, and

lungs Air passes through each bronchus into the lungs through smaller tubes called bronchioles At the end of the bronchioles, there are tiny air sacs called alveoli