Can smoking cause asthma? Can it cause COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)?

Answer 1

Yes, those things and many more. It will shorten your life by many years and make you smell really bad.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yes smoking does cause asthma, and that I can tell you as an ex smoker only having just given up a year ago, after smoking nearly 40 a day for over 40 years, but the good thing here, is I presume you are much much younger than me, have not been smoking the amount of years I did, which also damaged my heart by the way, so if you give up now, then you should not be plagued with asthma. OK now a little about asthma itself. We can be born with asthma, or we can acquire it, often those who acquire asthma tend to do so in their middle aged years. Asthma that one is born with or acquires is more or less the same as asthma caused via smoking and a person abusing their lungs, but getting it naturally is worse in a way, cos its the airways not opening properly, and whilst with the sprays and inhalers asthma can easily be controlled, least when we get it via bad habits such as smoking, then by giving up the smoking and using the inhalers for a year or so after, the airways will repair themselves to a greater extent. But whatever types of asthma a person has this is a illness that should always be taken seriously by the sufferer, always have your inhalers upon you, could be the difference between life and death, don't over exert yourself if you suffer with asthma, yet at the same time as doctors will tell you, you need to get back stamina, you need to exercise and get the airways fully working, but its not the end of the world if you have this illness, its common but it can be very serious, so always be wise and take your inhalers and medications a doctor puts you on, and its then another chronic illness that we can live with, and not let take over our lives. Best wishes and I wish you a happy new year. Billie UK

Answer 4

I feel your pain. I've had asthma for 14 years now and have seen several doctors. The truth is, there is no known cure for asthma at the moment. But the symptoms can be prevented. It really depends on what causes your brother's asthma. Mine is usually dust and hot weather. But I think the universal method is using the control inhaler.

I cured my Asthma the natural way?

Answer 5

I know it can trigger asthma. My husband had child hood asthma. He was around a whole bunch of smoke when he had an attack. I'm not to sure about copd.

Answer 6

Not only smoking causes asthma and COPD, it also causes lung cancer, contributes to coronary heart disease and some studies have shown that smoking increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in people with no genetic links.

Among young people, the short-term health consequences of smoking include respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the associated risk of other drug use. Long-term health consequences of youth smoking are reinforced by the fact that most young people who smoke regularly continue to smoke throughout adulthood.

Cigarette smokers have a lower level of lung function than those persons who have never smoked.

Smoking reduces the rate of lung growth.

In adults, cigarette smoking causes heart disease and stroke. Studies have shown that early signs of these diseases can be found in adolescents who smoke.

Smoking hurts young people's physical fitness in terms of both performance and endurance—even among young people trained in competitive running.

On average, someone who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes each day lives 7 years less than someone who never smoked.

The resting heart rates of young adult smokers are two to three beats per minute faster than nonsmokers.

Smoking at an early age increases the risk of lung cancer. For most smoking-related cancers, the risk rises as the individual continues to smoke.

Teenage smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost three times as often as teens who don't smoke, and produce phlegm more than twice as often as teens who don't smoke.

Answer 7

Smoke from cigars, cigarettes and pipes harms your body in many ways, but it is especially harmful to the respiratory system. The airways in a person with asthma are very sensitive and can react to many things, or "triggers." Coming into contact with these triggers often produces asthma symptoms. Tobacco smoke is a powerful asthma trigger.

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/0300/0347.asp?index=4584

Answer 8

YES, YES, YES!!!!!! My grandmother has COPD, Emphasema, Asthma, Bronchitis, and she has to have oxygen 24hours a day all because of SMOKING! Please if there is any way that you can stop smoking please take every action necessary to do so or if you were thinking about begining, don't!

Answer 9

Smoking will only lead you to the ICU in a hospital on oxygen or worse a ventilator. STOP SMOKING.

Answer 10

Yes, smoking diminishes lung capacity which can lead to thses diseases and others such as emphysema.