Experimental Study on a New Type of Drug-treated Cigarettes Lowering Bronchopulmonary Lesions

A new type of drug-treated cigarettes aimed at low-ering bronchopulmonary lesions have been studied. Therats smoking ordinary cigarettes were compared with therats smoking cigarettes treated with Chinese traditionaldrugs which possessed anti-inflammatory and detoxicationeffects. The results showed that bronchiolar and bronchi-olopulmonary lesions are less in the drug-treated groupby histopathologic observation. We also found that bacte-riophagocytosis and immunocytochemical lysozyme reac-tions of alveolar macrophages in bronchial alveolar lavagefluids from the drug-treated cigarette smoking rats wereweakened. There are some differences of surface ultra-structures of alveolar macrophages between the ordinarysmoking group and the drug-treated smoking group. Thisindicated differentially functional states of these alveo-lar macrophages in the different groups.