An FDA spokeswoman confirmed that the products are legal as long as they don't contain alkaloids of ephedrine. But any sites selling ephedra with ephedrine (we found a few claiming to do that) are doing so illegally, even if the products are left over from before the ban.
September 4, 2012 â¢ COPD Emphysema. COPD life expectancy depends upon the stage of disease and level of symptoms experienced by patients. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease can cause lungs damage. It is one of the leading causes of death of people in US.People die after reaching ending stages of this disease.OPD life expectancy depends upon the stage of disease and level of symptoms experienced by patients. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease can cause lungs damage. It is one of the leading causes of death of people in US.
Still, one group of researchers recently did try to address this very question of life expectancy by stage of COPD. They concluded that for otherwise healthy 65-year-old men with Stage I COPD, life expectancy ranges from 14 to 18 years, depending on whether the person was a current, former, or never smoker.an be a slow agonizing death. I am 57 and have COPD smoked for 16 years 2-3 packs a day I quit 16 years ago this coming August. I am in stage two,the stage is not important,how you take care of your self is ,as COPD is not reversible only progresses.