This research protocol involves adding a research bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) to clinically indicated bronchoscopy that is being performed for evaluation of lung nodules suspected to possibly be malignant. The research BAL will be performed during the same procedure, but on the opposite lung from the radiographic lesion that motivated the bronchoscopy. Subjects will be COPD patients or smokers with normal pulmonary function recruited from the Pulmonary Clinic. Smoking history will be taken to mean at least 20 pack-years exposure, and could include current or ex-smokers. Bronchoscopy will be performed under conscious sedation using a fiberoptic bronchoscope, in almost all cases on outpatients (although stable inpatients could be considered for consent if they otherwise meet eligibility criteria). The setting is the Endoscopy suite at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital.