Coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath… What’s your first thought? I think many people might say asthma! These symptoms, along with—sometimes—coughing up sputum (known as mucus or phlegm) from the lungs, are also classic symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD—types of COPD include emphysema, chronic bronchitis,

Not one disease but an umbrella term for several lung diseases that cause some degree of “obstruction” in the lungs, COPD essentially means that even when a p