Cigarette Smoke & Asthma
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for the lungs. This is no Rocket Science. Asthmatics already have over-sensitive airways and thus irritants and toxins in cigarette smoke are doubly harmful to them. Yet, the percentage of asthmatics who smoke is nearly the same as the percentage of smokers in the general population in a given […]
Do emotions play a role in asthma?
Yes they do. But only a small role in some asthmatics. Many hundred years ago, asthma was thought to be a neurotic or a psychosomatic disease. Now, of course we know that asthma is a disease in which the airways are oversensitive and over reactive. They become constricted or narrowed in response to a variety […]