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What is the process your body starts to remove all tar ftom lungs after quitting smoking?
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Pulmonary: macrophages digest and eliminate most of the residual tar and chemicals. Mucus cells also produce mucus to carry out the debris for expectoration.
Answered 7/31/2018
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