Oxygen + Smoking = Problem

Don’t do this please! Smoker, 90, critically burned as oxygen tank ignites
A 90-year-old Ypsilanti woman was criticially injured Thursday when the oxygen system she was using to breathe caught on fire while she was smoking.
Firefighters responded to the 400 block of West Michigan Avenue around 11:30 p.m. to find the woman and her couch on [...]

Doctors Must Help COPD Patients Quit Smoking

Doctors Must Help COPD Patients Quit Smoking - Forbes.com
Despite the risks, more than 36 percent of patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)are still smoking, a new study says.
“It doesn’t look like a good part of the [COPD] population is getting the information it needs from health-care providers,” lead researcher Jeannine Schiller, a statistician [...]