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What is the outcome of smoking while having asthma ?
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Trouble: Asthma as it is can cause several respiratory manifestations. Smoking can only make matters worse.
Answered 3/15/2013
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Bad combo: Smoking worses your airways' reactivity...Making asthma symptoms worse. It reduces clearance of mucus, too.
Answered 1/2/2015
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