Does Albuterol help prevent or clean tar build-up on lungs?

[birdgirl73]

did you know thc opens up your lungs...and the smoke mostly stays in your main bronchial tubes away from your aveoli, unlike tobacco smoke which goes deep in your lungs, and bunches them up...which makes it harder for your lungs to get rid of the tar, and not to mention it kills or harms your aveoli. i have not once had any decrease in my lungs productivity from smokeing weed, i can breath just as good as i could before i started smokeing weed, however...half a cigarette will make my lungs feel all shitty (i usually dont smoke tobacco). If your worried about your lungs id invest in a vaporizer...fuck pharmaceutical drugs.

sorry i didnt really answer your question

Jesta, please take the information above with a grain of salt. This person doesn't know how the pulmonary system works. Cannabis smoke, like anything else inhaled into the lungs, does indeed go into the alveoli, or little air sacs that are the final branches of the pulmonary "tree." That's where all gas exchange occurs in the lungs and it's where THC and the other active ingredients in weed are absorbed. The alveoli are the only parts of the lungs equipped for any sort of gas or chemical exchange. Perhaps what MrNiceGuy was thinking of was the fact that while cigarette smoking tends to be more damaging to the alveoli, cannabis smoking more frequently damages the large airways, or bronchial tubes, and diminishes the small airways, or bronchioles.

Princess knows what she's talking about. Albuterol doesn't scour out tar or other inhaled buildup in the lungs. It simply dilates airways by constricting the small blood vessels along the smooth muscle. Anyone who's seen autopsied lungs of long-time smokers, including long-time pot smokers, knows that tar builds up and leaves deposits that remain behind. Invest in a vaporizer if you're concerned about your pulmonary health.

birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on 08-14-2007. Does Albuterol help prevent or clean tar build-up on lungs? I've had an inhaler (Albuterol & Flovent) since I was much younger and have never really used it until now. I really can feel how it opens up my lungs whenever I use it. However I was wondering does Albuterol (or Flovent) help clean up tar that has built up on my lungs from smoking weed? I know it can be used for clearing mucas in the lungs for someone with bronchitis so maybe this could be true. Rating: 5