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What we now know about how smoking stiffens lungs
May 18, 2026
RIVERSIDE, California, May 18 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:

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What we now know about how smoking stiffens lungs

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For the first time, scientists have directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of human lung tissue.

Published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the study directed by UC Riverside mechanical engineer Mona Eskandari, examines human lung pa . . .

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