Most if not all COPD patients I have seen were due to smoking. But to our surprise, we don't call the disease SMOKING DISEASE but the high fallutin name CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE.If you would ask all the pulmonologist in the world, they would all agree that smoking caused a lot of this illness. And yet, there is no law against it ( just like guns). The Dept of Health all the over the world has been fighting against smoking to no avail. We all know smoking is addictive.
We regulate the use of tranquilizers. We are asked to write especial prescriptions for them. Nobody can buy tranquilizers without prescriptions. And yet, you can buy cigarettes anywhere and even children can buy it.
COPD is not the only disease caused by smoking. Reynaud's phenomenon/Reynaud's disease is caused by smoking. This is numbness and pain of the lower extremities. I have seen so many of them to count. The patients are in horrible state. They prefer to have an amputation rather than bear the excruciating pain in the legs which often occur at night when they have started to doze off. The legs are anatomically normal. On physical examination, they are cold and yet I can feel the pulse. And the feet are not swollen as in Diabetic gangrene. Just as I can smell a diabetic foot from afar, I can see an incoming BUERGER'S DISEASE in a person who is smoking from a distance.
We regulate the use of tranquilizers. We are asked to write especial prescriptions for them. Nobody can buy tranquilizers without prescriptions. And yet, you can buy cigarettes anywhere and even children can buy it.
COPD is not the only disease caused by smoking. Reynaud's phenomenon/Reynaud's disease is caused by smoking. This is numbness and pain of the lower extremities. I have seen so many of them to count. The patients are in horrible state. They prefer to have an amputation rather than bear the excruciating pain in the legs which often occur at night when they have started to doze off. The legs are anatomically normal. On physical examination, they are cold and yet I can feel the pulse. And the feet are not swollen as in Diabetic gangrene. Just as I can smell a diabetic foot from afar, I can see an incoming BUERGER'S DISEASE in a person who is smoking from a distance.
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