Love Your Lungs

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the Great American Smokeout is coming up November 21. That’s the day when we encourage smokers to go a day without smoking. But November is also the month we emphasize another lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

About 14 million Americans suffer from COPD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alabama has the eighth-highest prevalence of COPD in the nation. About 8.1 percent of Tallapoosa County residents and 7.5 percent of Coosa County residents suffer from COPD.

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