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In the U.S., nearly 8 out of 10 deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (#COPD) are a result of smoking.

7:00 PM · Apr 20, 2018

@SmokersRights1

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Giant Tuskegee Experiment - suppressing research, to blame smoking for COPD caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) tinyurl.com/gsddcw3 NHANES: 23% of COPD patients are never smokers ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16378780 which proves that all the rest can't be caused by smoking. It's CMV!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Airway obstruction in never smokers: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examina...

Never smokers represent a significant proportion of airway obstruction in US adults. Only one fifth of obstruction in this group is explained by asthma. COPD may explain much of the remainder,...

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