Will a smoker’s lungs clean themselves if they quit smoking and how long does it take?

I quit smoking in 1985 and I'd smoked for 19 years. I'd been told that my lungs would restore themselves. At age 71, 38 years since I'd smoked my last cigarette, I was diagnosed with lung cancer…

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