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Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:15 AM BST 
By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Smokers' heavily wrinkled faces could be an early warning sign of a serious lung disease, researchers said on Wednesday.
They found that smokers with pronounced wrinkles are five times more likely than those without marked facial lines to suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes bronchitis and emphysema.
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Reference:
Bipen D Patel, Wei Jing Loo, Angela D Tasker, Nicholas J Screaton, Nigel P Burrows, Edwin K Silverman, and David A Lomas
Smoking related COPD and facial wrinkling: is there a common susceptibility?
Thorax Published Online First: 14 June 2006. doi:10.1136/thx.2005.053827