For most of us, including myself, I don't think its purely denial. I kept hearing and reading that a smoker's cough is a dry hacking one. Smoker's cough comes on slowly over years and its anything but dry. I also have allergies and asthma and attributed mine to those. My cough was so bad it woke me in the middle of the night with spasming lungs and I herniated a disk in my neck coughing. My son, from the time he was three years old suffered with the same cough and he had asthma. It wasn't until I quite (decreased actually) smoking that I realized the cough wasn't due as much to asthma as it was to smoking because it cleared up vaping. Of course, some of it clearing up is that I'm highly allergice to formeldehyde and have now learned its in smokes. I also found out that my evironmental allergies are not as bad as I had thought they were when smoking. With my new clear lungs beginning to fill up again around the 6-month vaping point and investigating reasons for it, I found I'm allergic to dairy (not lactose intolerant) and I can't handle much VG or flavorings. So on the one hand, smoking masks other conditions but, also, conditions blamed can be due to smoking instead. Back on track, I wish the "powers that be" would quit describing "smoker's cough" as a dry hacking one and, maybe, more smokers would be aware of what they had when the morning, middle of the night or daily cough hits. But, to your point, would they quit then? Probably not. LOL But they might, now, look into vaping and do it. I'm just so happy now that I don't have to keep apologizing to people for my cough saying: "My allergies are bad" .. now I know the difference.
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