Smokers run greatest risk of lung disease

He said that the most common cause of this disease is smoking. Ninety-five percent of patients who have it are smokers and only a small group of people get it through occupational exposure. According to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), COPD is used to describe prolonged airflow obstruction that is mainly associated with chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The lung disease is said to be a leading health problem which causes significant disability. Chiguye said it is not a common condition in Botswana but there is a need to make people more aware.

Chiguye said that the disease is not so significant because not so many people are smokers. He said more and more young women have joined the fashionable trend of smoking.