Does smoking deprive your lungs of oxygen?

Question

I was just wondering, if you are inhaling weed or tobacco smoke, wouldn't you be filling your lungs up with weed/tobacco smoke and not oxygen therefore depriving your system of oxygen and resulting in brain damage?

Thanks

Answer 1

i guess so.

Answer 2

It's a little different than that. Smoke from tobacco contains Carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide removes or pulls oxygen from your red blood cells. Oxygen + smoke from tobacco / or weed goes into your lungs. The lungs nodules get clogged up with this resin and tar from the smoke. Weed smoke is loaded with damaging chemicals - but its mostly the tar that plugs the lungs.

So less oxygen gets to the red blood cells AND the carbon monoxide pulls oxygen out of the red blood cells that gets circulated around your body and to your brain.

Answer 3

It does deprive your brain of oxygen, but not enough to cause brain damage. Smoking is not damaging to your brain.  

Answer 4

wow **** i didnt know that!

Answer 5

Yea you have brain damage already if you're smoking cigerettes.

Answer 6

Only if you breathe nothing but smoke.