Shocking footage shows the BLACK lungs of 52-year-old chain smoker who puffed a pack a day for 30 years

Shocking footage shows the BLACK lungs of 52-year-old chain smoker who puffed a pack a day for 30 years

Shocking footage shows the tar-blackened lungs of a chain smoker who was hooked to the killer habit for 30 years. 

Instead of being a healthy red, they were charcoal in coloration and extremely inflamed from a long time of tobacco residue clogging them up.

Doctors from the Wuxi People's Hospital in Jiangsu, China, extracted the organs after the 52-12 months-old guy, who had a couple of lung diseases, died.

The video, recorded by means of the surgeons, has been considered more than 25million instances on social media, with users dubbing it the 'excellent anti-smoking advert ever'.

It became uploaded with the aid of the health center with the caption: 'Do you continue to have the courage to smoke?'

The patient had signed up to donate his organs after death, but medics quickly realised they would not be able to use them. 

Dr Chen, a lung transplant surgeon and also vice president of the facility, led the operation.

He said: 'The patient didn't undergo a CT scan before his death. He was declared brain dead, and his lungs were donated shortly after that.

'Initial oxygenation index checks were okay, however while we harvested the organs, we realised we wouldn't be able to use them.

'We Chinese love smoking. It might be impractical to mention that we wouldn't accept the lungs of all people who smoke, however there are strict requirements.

'[We would accept] lungs from humans beneath 60 years of age who've most effective lately died, minor infections inside the lungs and comparatively smooth X-rays are also ideal. If the above situations are met, we'd keep in mind transplanting the lungs.'

'SMOKING MUST BE STAMPED OUT BY 2030' 

The Government will aim to end smoking in England by 2030 as part of a range of measures to address preventable ill health.

Its green paper, released in July, said more needs to be done to improve public health. 

The paper read: 'Thanks to our concerted efforts on smoking, we now have one of the lowest smoking rates in Europe. 

'Yet, for the 14 percent of adults who still smoke, it’s the main risk to health.

Smokers are disproportionately located in areas of high deprivation. In Blackpool, one in four pregnant women smoke. In Westminster, it’s one in 50.' 

The paper proposed offering stop-smoking help to all cigarette users who are admitted to NHS hospitals. 

It said it wants to reduce the smoking rate to 12 per cent by 2022 and to zero by 2030. 

'This includes an ultimatum for industry to make smoked tobacco obsolete by 2030,' the paper added, 'with smokers quitting or moving to reduced risk products like e-cigarettes.'