Most of the people who prefer smoking may get affected with a long-term lung disease of which they are ignorant.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) including chronic bronchitis and emphysema is such kind of lung disease that may result in cancer. Patients affected with this disease, found to be highly dependent on cigarettes.
COPD remains undiagnosed due to ignorance of the patients about it. Mostly, older one, manual workers, males and socio-economically deprived people found to be affected with it.
The normal symptoms like cough, breathless while exercising make them unmindful about the initiation of a disease that may disable them or even lead to death, if they continue smoking.
Therefore, smokers need to get a simple lung function test to check out attack of COPD. In addition, campaigning is required to make the smokers aware of the disease so that they can go for its treatment as early as possible.
Via: BBC