Fact Sheets
To help you identify key information and messages for your own advocacy campaign:
- Your lungs contain almost 1500 miles of airways and over 300 million alveoli.
- Every minute you breathe in 13 pints of air.
- At rest, a person breathes about 14 to 16 times per minute. After exercise it could increase to over 60 times per minute.
- New babies at rest breathe between 40 and 50 times per minute. By age five it decreases to around 25 times per minute.
- The total surface area of the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) is the size of a tennis court.
- The lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water.
- The lungs are the largest organ in the body and the only internal organ exposed to the external environment.
Research on Lung Health
