I would love to run in an athletic sport if i did not have COPD.
What is COPD?
Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease, which is also called empysema, is an obstructive lung disease which makes it hard to breathe.
I am sorry that you have that, is it from smoking?
Tobacco smoke contains a lot of chemicals, my doctor says it's from smoking, but if you had asthma as a child, you are more prone to get it.
Oh wow, can it be cured?
No, COPD just gets worse and worse until it kills you.  However, with exercise and quitting smoking, you can extend your life to some extent.
How much can you extend your life by quitting smoking and exercising?  Is there an estimate?
That is unknown.  Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, but smoking cessation is difficult.
I bet but I hear there a lot of good alternatives out there.  Is vaping suggested to you?
and decreasing harm benefits, but there remains a concern over their long-term safety and potential for a new era of users to get addicted to nicotine and then tobacco. There is concern among tobacco control academics and advocates that prevalent universal vaping "will bring its own distinct but as yet unknown health risks in the same way tobacco smoking did, as a result of chronic exposure", among other things.
Medical organizations differ in their views about the health implications of vaping. There is general agreement that e-cigarettes
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Safety.
Tobacco smoke, besides being an irritant and significant indoor air pollutant, is known to cause lung cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and other serious diseases in smokers (and, according to some, in non-smokers as well). The actual mechanisms by which smoking can cause so many diseases remain largely unknown. Many attempts have been made to produce lung cancer in animals exposed to tobacco smoke by the