Who gets COPD?

You cannot get COPD from someone else
Adults get COPD - not children
Most people with COPD are smokers or were smokers in the past. Any form of smoking can cause COPD
Some people with COPD have lived in homes filled with fumes from cooking stoves or fumes from heaters used to warm the home
Some people with COPD worked for many years in places that were very dusty or smoky