Tag Archives: COPD

COPD-smoking kills

Smoking kills more than 480,000 people annually in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 117,600 of those adult deaths are in the 12-state region containing Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia, dubbed “Tobacco Nation” by Truth Initiative, the anti-smoking […]
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COPD

Do you know what COPD stands for?  I didn’t until my father-in-law died from this debilitating disease.  COPD is the acronym for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and there is no known cure.  The primary cause is smoking and he was a heavy smoker.  From my memories, he had many of these symptoms by his early fifties: […]
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