A 52-year-old man with a 30-year history of smoking presents with chronic cough and hemoptysis. Bronchoscopy reveals replacement of normal ciliated columnar epithelium with stratified squamous epithelium in the bronchi. Which of the following statements about this lesion is NOT true?

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