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A 67 years old man has smoked 20 cigarrettes per day for 52 years and has become increasingly short of breath on exertion. He also describes a productive cough most of the year and has had numerous chest infections in winter over the past 10 years. You order spirometry and his FEV1/FVC ration os 0.5. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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