can you get asthma from smoking?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

Everybody with asthma has different triggers, just like everybody's asthma is different. I know someone who has asthma and still smokes, but will have an attack if she laughs too much. Go figure. Smoking, though, likely does not help her asthma any, and is bad for everybody, even if they don't have asthma! So, to answer your questions: 1. If smoke is a person's asthma trigger, they can have a serious attack from smoking, although it won't always happen. This attack will cause the bronchi to swell, air not to be able to enter the lungs, and ultimately, if not treated, the person CAN die. 2. See question one. Certain inhaled substances, be it drugs, cigarettes, perfumes, molds, pollen, dust, even cold air can trigger an asthma attack, and if the person has severe asthma, or a bad attack, and isn't treated promptly with a rescue inhaler or emergency care, they can die.

Answer 4

Want to hear two weird things?

1. Doctors used to prescribe smoking to treat asthma.

2. If your grandmother smoked, you have an increased risk of developing asthma - and you don't even need to have ever come in contact with your grandmother.

So, can you get asthma from smoking? - sure, if your grandmother or mother smoked. As for you smoking and getting asthma, I'll go with what the Robert M's response.

Answer 5

Yes, as I have heared from the professionals during my studies.You cannot just get asthma from smoking their are many ways were you can able to get asthma smoking is just one of its cause you can also get asthma when you hold a dirty object like a hundred year old painting located in your grandma's house one also of the examlpes is the animals the best exaple of it is a cat because cat has a very little fur that can also cause to asthma is also occur when you go along with the people having asthma.

Answer 6

Im not sure about that. What I am sure about is that I was diagnosed with asthma at 11 and started smoking at 13( like a duffus). I am now 38, quit smoking 2 years ago with the onset of copd ( a condition set aside for us smokers only). Now I cant work, every cold turns into lung infection that lasts for months and I have recently lost a friend at 43 to the same thing. Only she was unable to quit smoking, a sad fact that her 13 year old hates her for. So to all of you smokers out there that are starting to feel your lungs deteriorate, if you love your family and enjoy laughing without it turning into a major coughing fit, do your best to quit asap. This is no way to live. Statistics say that I wont have to put up with it too much longer.

Answer 7

I'm not sure if it can CAUSE asthma but if you do have any asthma it can definitely make it worse. I have asthma and when I was smoking it made my asthma a lot worse, which is the big reason why I quit.

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Answer 8

That depends upon what you mean by "asthma". The short answer is that smoking, over the long run, usually ends up causing chronic lung disease, and that chronic lung disease is often chronic bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis has many features that are very similar or identical to asthma. There is inflammation of the small airways that causes narrowing of the airways and increased mucous production with coughing, wheezing and difficulty emptying the lungs.

That condition is not exactly the same as asthma, but the results are very similar. Lung function responds pretty much the same to a variety of injuries. The treatments for both asthma and chronic bronchitis are also similar, with inhaled bronchodilators, inhaled anticholinergics (drugs that block the effect of acetylcholine), and steroids. Smokers need to quit smoking, and parents of asthmatics also need to quit smoking, but unfortunately this is extremely difficult. The tobacco industry has spent a great deal of time and money making their product as addictive as possible, and it is very difficult for most people to quit.

Answer 9

I can't really say that smoking causes asthma but it sure does make it worse. My stepdad smoked for many many years and now he has asthma,emphysema and copd. Thank God he stopped smoking three years ago or he most likely would be dead. My mom also has all these things and now she stopped smoking about a year ago. They will never get rid of these health problems but they do cope with it as long as they take their medication everyday.

Answer 10

I can't say whether it can cause someone to develop asthma who did not already have the condition, but it often can trigger attacks in those who do.

Someone who doesn't know they have smoke-induced asthma may suffer an attack from the smoke and it may lead them to believe the smoke caused them to develop asthma.

Asthma can be triggered by one or all of the following:
allergies
excercise
cold air (bronchiospasms)
smoke/dust particles
and probably more

Answer 11

It is possible, but asthma is mainly caused by Kidney birth disorders, which you are born with. Smoking has an impact on your lungs which does cause intense coughing and voice box irritation which have similar symptoms as asthma.