IT simply read - "Smoking may be hazardous to your Health." They never said WHY. That didn't include my living in the "Steel Alley" of Chicago and NWest INdiana for me (about 20 companies - International and local manufacturers):
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. Or maybe later hobbies in both Automotive repair and spray painting businesses as well. OH well, WHO knows?. Could have been worse working on a Horse Ranch instead I guess! I was a Marlboro man, for sure.

You are so right!! Thank you. Cig companies used to pass out packs of 10 cigarettes outside of the bookstore at college.. that’s how I got hooked. Unless you have smoked you can’t know how addicting they are!!

Whether we like it or not, the fact is that the primary cause of COPD in the US is smoking. In other parts of the world indoor cooking fires are more cause than smoking, but we usually don't do that here. That's why smoking is the first question. If you can get over yourself to the extent that you realize people are simply asking for information rather than adding blame to the question, you'll be a lot happier. You can always add the fact that 25% of the people who have COPD never smoked.

Sorry folks, sometimes I'm not thinking and give myself a Like or a Hug, and notice it later. Well maybe it's not a bad thing.

On our farm it was defoliants and good old crop dusting. COPD and lung cancer. Not sure if the government ever put a stop to all that.