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by BLKNSLVR 57 days ago
Can vouch for the loudness capability of large lungs.

A lady sitting in front of me at the football said she could feel the vibrations in her chest when I was loudly booing at the footy.

I had an x-ray a couple of years ago and was asked if I was a smoker, strangely because of the size of my lungs. Apparently, ironically, smokers lungs are larger than average and I have to assume it's to balance out all the damage that smoking does. I used to be a swimmer, so I figured my lungs must have developed from the requirement of controlled breathing as part of swimming (and the general fitness and therefore additional oxygen processing requirements).