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

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

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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

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.

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

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!

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.

Yup it sure can.and cause many other things too.like clubbing of the nails,changes in vocal chords,skin elasticity changes over time.there's a whole list of things it causes..and the most permanent one is.death.
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ex smoker and medical provider

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

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