Air Pollution Impacts on Health: Fun Facts about Your Lungs

• The right lung is slightly larger than the left.
• Hairs in your nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warm it.
• The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 99 miles per hour!
• The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
• If placed end to end, capillaries would extend 960 miles.
• We lose half a liter of water every day through breathing.
• A person at rest breathes between 12-15 times a minute.
• The breathing rate is faster in children and women than it is in men.

For more information about your lungs, check out the American Lung Association.