This warning was issued at the first World Congress on Lung Health and Respiratory Diseases in Florence, Italy, where 15,000 specialists from 84 countries gathered during the week of Sept. 3-9, 2000.
Their official statement was clear, "There are hundreds of medicines routinely prescribed for a variety of disorders, including high blood pressure, allergies, rheumatism, certain cancers or even common non-respiratory inflammations, that can cause all kinds of lung diseases."
These diseases are classified as accidents that are induced in a patient by a physician's prescribed treatment.
These diseases may develop in a very short time. They are mostly unpredictable and some are irreversible, leaving lifelong damage: http://www.breathing.com/articles/pneumotox.htm.
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