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Due to Smoking? If You Are Short of Breath and Your Voice Changes, Suspect COPD

Have you ever woken up in the morning clearing your throat with a cough, feeling more short of breath than usual, or noticing that your voice is not what it used to be? Because it may not feel like a major illness on the surface, you might have brushed it off, thinking it is just the changing seasons or part of getting older. However, these subtle signals may be an SOS sent by an essential organ in our body: the lung.