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To increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — which is expected to become the world’s third-leading cause of death by 2030 — Nov. 19 has been declared World COPD Day, according to a report in the Nov. 14 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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