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61 year?old man presents to OPD with complaints of persistent, non-productive cough for 1 month. He has no other symptom. He is smoking around 20 biddis per day for last 25 years. Physical examination is normal. What is the line of management in such patients?

AReassurance and advise him to quit smoking
BPrescribe oral antibiotics for 7 days
CDo a chest X ray and refer him to smoking cessation clinic
DGo for a CT thorax to visualise pathology
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