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Desperate transplant patients are being given the lungs of chain smokers because the NHS is so short of organ donations.

Surgeons are also being forced to use diseased body parts from cancer sufferers, drug addicts and the very elderly…

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They are also using tissue from those more at risk of carrying HIV and Hepatitis C such as gay men and drug users.

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