Health and Fitness

‘Scary’ Lung Disease Now Afflicts More Women Than Men In U.S.

COPD in women
Inez Shakman lives in Ventura, Calif., and was recently diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. She walks her dog, Joy, when she can but gets winded easily. (Anna Gorman/California Healthline)
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2018
By: Anna Gorman

Joan Cousins was among a generation of young women who heard — and bought into the idea — that puffing on a cigarette was sophisticated, modern, even liberating. No one suspected it would make them more than…

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