A woman issued an admonition regarding the perils of second-hand smoking yesterday after developing incurable 'smokers lung', in spite of not having smoked a cigarette in her life.

Lynda Mitchell, 52, is fading from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a sickness that affects heavy smokers. But, she has always loathed tobacco.

The mother-of-one holds her parents responsible for the disease, who each lighted up 60 cigarettes everyday during her upbringing.

Lynda's stepfather Ray Evans, who came in the family when she was two years old, died in 1990 at the age of 60 due to lung cancer. Her mom, June Evans, now 72, has emphysema and destructive skin cancer.

Lynda, of Bristol, said that she will succumb to death from passive smoking and she has never taken a puff in her life.

She said, "My mum used to get up in the morning and light a cigarette. She smoked about 60 a day. I'd get up in the morning and the first thing that would hit me when I walked down the stairs was the vile smell of smoke".

Lynda continued that she would cough and cough till she was almost sick. No one understood the destructive consequences of smoking 50 years back; they just felt that it was trendy.