This COPD Foundation group is useless. It's nothing more than a lobbying group trying to get donations from us COPD sufferers so they can lobby in DC to get government money for who knows what? Keep their high paying jobs? They never talk about cures either. Just make people aware, try to prevent it and detect. I don't think there's a person over the age of 5 that doesn't know smoking is bad for you."We must intensify our efforts to increase awareness, prevention and detection, and to develop new treatments to help reduce the enormous burden COPD places on patients, their families and our healthcare system, " said John W. Walsh, president and co-founder of the US-based COPD Foundation. "Deaths from COPD are increasing much faster than previously projected, which should be a wake-up to all of us."