The Body Show: The Great Smoke out

Published November 18, 2013 at 8:03 PM HST

Lung cancer, emphysema, COPD, chronic bronchitis, do we really need more reasons to stop smoking? Valerie Chang from the Hawaii COPD Coalition will be in the studio to tell us more about the "great smoke out".

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