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Posted on 10/17/2006 1:09:34 PM PDT by trumandogz
TUESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that at least 1 in every 4 smokers will develop progressive and incurable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a much higher risk than previously believed.
COPD is a respiratory disease that results in blocked air flow to the lungs and grows progressively worse.
For this study, published online in the journal Thorax, researchers at Hvidovre Hospital analyzed data on 8,000 men and women, ages 30 to 60. All were monitored for 25 years as part of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
At the start of the study, all the participants' lungs were healthy and working normally. However, over the course of the 25 years, the lungs of almost all the male non-smokers continued to function normally, compared to 60 percent of men who continued to smoke.
Among women, 90 percent of non-smokers still had healthy lungs at the end of 25 years, compared to 70 percent of smokers.
Overall, 25 percent of the participants developed moderate or severe COPD over the 25 years. Persistent smokers were six times more likely to develop COPD than non-smokers.
During the 25 years, there were 2,900 deaths in the study group. Of those deaths, 109 were directly attributable to COPD, and nearly all those deaths were in people who were active smokers at the start of the study. Only two non-smokers died of COPD.
The study also found a sharp decline in the risk of COPD among people who stopped smoking soon after the start of the study. Over the 25 years, none of these ex-smokers developed severe COPD.
TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: addiction; buttlist; denial; dontinhale; humanashtrays; nicotine; puff; pufflist; smoke; smoking; tobacco; tobaccoaddicts
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To: trumandogz
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:10:25 PM PDT
by
Toby06
To: trumandogz
Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:10:43 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Toby06
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:10:44 PM PDT
by
Toby06
To: trumandogz
You posted this, here?! Brave. Truly.
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:11:01 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Froufrou
Hey, I did not write the Headline.
To: trumandogz
...well....at least they know what they're going to die from......
To: trumandogz
For this study, published online in the journal Thorax .....Interesting name for a rag!
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:13:25 PM PDT
by
Disturbin
(Get back to work -- millions of people on welfare are counting on you!)
To: wagglebee
Because the risk of COPD is much higher than was previously believed. That's the news-part of this.
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:13:37 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: trumandogz
Over the 25 years, none of these ex-smokers developed severe COPD. That's a better rate than those who never smoked. Hmmm....
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:14:15 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Islam delenda est)
To: trumandogz; wagglebee
Me know. As for the more positive spin waggy would prefer, wny would the media start being positive now?
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:14:48 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: trumandogz
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:15:07 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: trumandogz
everyone who gets cancer has eaten carrots.
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:15:16 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: trumandogz
wow... who'd a thunk that inhaling a mixture of irritants, mutagens, and toxins could have serious health ramifications for a significant percentage of those who do so.
Yet another study from The Center for Figuring Out Obvious Things /rant
though I guess the actual percentages weren't obvious, along with the recovery rate after stopping smoking
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:15:27 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: wagglebee
Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?! The other 75% get heart disease, cancer, and bad breath.
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:16:22 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Rakkasan1
everyone who gets cancer has eaten carrots.
I'm willing to bet that's not true!
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:16:39 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: wagglebee
Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!Sort of like playing Russian Roulette with 1 loaded and 3 empty chambers. (Once)
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:16:56 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: trumandogz
Alternative headline....three out of four smokers will not get lung disease
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:17:30 PM PDT
by
svcw
To: trumandogz
That is GOOD NEWS! I used to think it was a 100% certainty to develop COPD and about as high to get Cancer!
Guess that proves again to limit reading of the MSM...Too much misleading information being published for my tastes.
BTW, what is the REAL news on the Economy and the War?
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posted on
10/17/2006 1:18:46 PM PDT
by
coldoc
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