Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Some diagnoses become so common that we stop questioning them. An elderly smoker with breathlessness? COPD. A wheezy patient in the emergency? COPD exacerbation. But bedside medicine Cigarette smoke can reprogram cells in your airways, causing COPD to hang on after smoking ends Electronic cigarette use and its association with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma COPD overlap syndrome among never cigarette smokers Chronic electronic cigarette exposure in mice induces features of COPD in a nicotine dependent manner Thorax Broad range of studies show e cigs increase lung disease risk by 40 50% Stanton Glantz blog