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

The point of snorting drugs is to get most inside of your nose, not lungs. However, for whatever gets in your lungs, your lungs are always cleaning themselves. They can generally get small stuff out without problem, unless you are putting things in faster than they can remove them in eg. smoking.