After years of smoking, jodie's grandmother died of a disease in which the air sacs in the lungs were destroyed, impairing her ability to breathe. what did her grandmother die of?

Her grandmother died of a disease called EMPHYSEMA. This is a disease in which the air sacs of the lungs, known as alveoli, fail to perform its proper exchange of gases. The alveoli is responsible for converting carbon-dioxide rich gases into oxgen-rich gases that are transported throughout the body through the blood. Chronic smoking is a habit that can damage such vital functions of the alveoli.

Mitochondria is the cell organelle that produced the energy that is needed in the body system in form of atp, that is why it is called the power house of the cell. energy is needed by the living organisms to carry out the activities which sustain life.  if the mitochondria is destroyed atp will not be produced. if the mitochondria is destroyed, energy production will stop and the affected living organism will not have the energy to carry out the necessary life processes; this will lead to the death of the organism.

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