[Effect of smoking and alcohol drinking on the moisture-excreting lung function]

A study was made on the moisture-exuding function of the lungs in healthy persons who smoke and in patients with different forms of tuberculosis, who abuse and do not abuse alcohol. It has been ascertained that the moisture-exuding function of the lungs is time-related, dynamic and changeable, and dependent upon certain environmental factors. Smoking and alcohol enhance the moisture-exuding function of the lungs, secondary to which fact they can be regarded as those factors facilitating the development of pathological processes in the lungs, tuberculosis included.