Hi Tracy,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:02:01 +1300, "Nick Grant" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Don't know about the pathogen side of things being implicated.  This guy was
>a heavy smoker, plus he has worked with noxious chemicals most of his life,
>that they now wear gas masks for.  I'd say those two things would be the
>major causes, wouldn't you?

Not causes.  But factors that would allow pathogens to more easily get
a foothold in the lungs.  The cause is the pathogen (there are people
who's immune system is strong enough that they don't get emphysema
with the same environment).

-- Dean -- from (almost) Duh Moyn  (CDP, KB0ZDF)


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