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American Lung Association: General Smoking Information Description: Contains fact sheets and data on smoking, secondhand smoke, and their relationship to a lung cancer, emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. (lungusa.org) |
| Easy Rider Ain't So Easy: A Living With COPD Story Description: I am a 50 year old man, diagnosed with COPD -- severe emphysema, chronic bronchitis and a moderate asthmatic component. I started smoking when I was about 14 years old..." (papapoo.com) |
| NIEHS Asthma Prevention: Cigarette Smoke Description: People with allergies may be more sensitive to cigarette smoke than others and research indicates that smoking aggravates allergies. (niehs.nih.gov) |
| Smoking and Respiratory Disease Description: ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and lung cancer, COPD, pneumonia. (ash.org.uk) |
| Smoking and Respiratory Disease Description: Information from the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Australia. Factsheet, diagrams, and basic information. (cancersa.org.au) |
| Specimen 156.9: Lung: Emphysema Description: From a library of medical images, a lung with emphysema ("smoker's lung"). (med.unsw.edu.au) |
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