How do people people continually snort drugs without filling their lungs?

Question

I have always wondered, to those that snort drugs (cocaine, tobacco, ketamine, whatever else) how do they keep doing it without it building up in the lungs?

Does it just keep building up in the lungs until you can’t breathe anymore? Do the lungs just fill up with powder? If so, wouldn’t you only be able to use the drug so many times before you literally suffocate?

Thanks to you all in advance, really baffled on this one 🙂

Edit: Answered, thank you to all that contributed!

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Answer 1

People snort drugs which are water soluble. So these drugs dissolve in the moisture in the nose, which is then absorbed into the capillaries in nose.

So it’s hard for anything to make it to the lunges. If somehow you managed to snort drugs soo hard they made it to the lunges, they would just dissolve and get absorbed into your blood stream.