How Does Smoking Affect Asthma?
Smoking is bad for everyone, but especially for people who have asthma. Smoking causes coughing and wheezing and makes it hard to breathe — the same problems that happen during an asthma flare-up. So if you add smoke to lungs that are already irritated, you have big-time breathing trouble.
If people have asthma and they smoke, they will probably:
- have more asthma flare-ups, with coughing and wheezing
- need more asthma medicine because it won't work as well
- visit the doctor and emergency room more often
- miss fun stuff they want to do because of asthma flare-ups