VOA Health Report: Smoking and the Risk to Women’s Lungs

This report begins at 0:16.

You can listen to the original radio version of this report at
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2009-06/2009-06-02-voa2.cfm.

C.O.P.D., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, blocks airflow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause is cigarette smoking. Experts at the National Institutes of Health in the United States say the damage to the lungs cannot be repaired and there is no cure. [More ...]