Different Body, Different Smoking Effect

Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are diseases of the lungs in which the airways become limited. This leads to a limitation of the flow of air to and from the lungs causing shortness of breath. In contrast to asthma, the limitation of airflow is poorly reversible and usually gets progressively worse over time.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is caused by harmful particles or gases, usually from smoking, which triggers an abnormal inflammatory response in the lung.
Smoking effects is not the same in all smokers, according to a recent study. But the exact reason for the development and evasion of this disease is seemingly not yet known by the experts.
The World Health Organization said, not only one time, that smoking cigarettes may be a major cause of death in all people even non-smokers. And it also explained that smoking cigarettes may affect people differently. It showed that an autoimmune mechanism along with genetic tendency in COPD may lead to the growth of this disease in only some people and not in others. Undoubtedly, COPD may be a hereditary disease meaning that it may pass from one generation to the other.
Moreover, smoking the main cause of this disease may be transmitted mainly due to infections or due to air pollution. Fulfilling household activities like open fire pollutant cooking and heating fuels may perhaps be the cause of this disease the most in women.
Dr. Manuel Cosio from the McGill University Health Centre has stated: "Smoke can play an important role in autoimmune diseases such as COPD, and other diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, because it intensifies genetic inclinations to the disease."
Evidently the reasons for the cause of this disease are yet well studied. Earlier scientific findings showed that the disease may not grow in the same way in all the people who smoke if the smoker quit.
Scientists explained that may be three steps involved in the development of this disease in smokers. Some people who smoke may get this disease while some may escape it, so the exact mechanism through which patients get this disease is not yet clear.
Dr. Cosio has added: "COPD does not go from stage one, two and three in all people. Depending on their personal balance between immune response and immune control some people would stop at stage one, others at stage two, and some will progress to stage three, full autoimmunity and lung destruction."
Some researchers have pretended that cigarette smoking may not have the same effect on everyone. The reason of this investigation is to find out more about the immunological processes and the way these processes may be controlled and restricted.  And then all these results to present to patients which suffer from this terrible disease.