[Ben Mugged]

How do you explain the asthma attacks I get anytime I'm around cigarette smoke? I only get them around cigarettes, not other kinds of smoke. How do you explain the death of my sister at 36 from lung cancer when she never smoked a day in her life but lived for 22 years with my Mother and Father who both chain smoked (my Dad died a few years later from cancer). How do you explain this? I would just love to hear your explanation......

[Hank Rearden]

Genetic allergies?

What percentage of people are like your family? Should we micromanage everyone's behavior based on the miniscule allergics?

[SheLion]

How do you explain the asthma attacks I get anytime I'm around cigarette smoke? I only get them around cigarettes, not other kinds of smoke. How do you explain the death of my sister at 36 from lung cancer when she never smoked a day in her life but lived for 22 years with my Mother and Father who both chain smoked (my Dad died a few years later from cancer). How do you explain this? I would just love to hear your explanation......

Ok.  For one thing, how about reading the report put out today about Asthma.  And please read the whole article.  No where does it even mention smoking or second hand smoke.

And this is from the New England Journal of Medicine:

Immune System Cells May Be Cause of Asthma

As for your other questions, I will let them be.  You just came in here feeling all smart and cocky looking for a fight.  I am not in the mood tonight to get into it with you.

How do you explain the asthma attacks I get anytime I'm around cigarette smoke? I only get them around cigarettes, not other kinds of smoke. How do you explain the death of my sister at 36 from lung cancer when she never smoked a day in her life but lived for 22 years with my Mother and Father who both chain smoked (my Dad died a few years later from cancer). How do you explain this? I would just love to hear your explanation......

Ok.  For one thing, how about reading the report put out today about Asthma.  And please read the whole article.  No where does it even mention smoking or second hand smoke.

And this is from the New England Journal of Medicine:

Immune System Cells May Be Cause of Asthma

As for your other questions, I will let them be.  You just came in here feeling all smart and cocky looking for a fight.  I am not in the mood tonight to get into it with you.

[Finny]

I'm very sorry for your losses ... but how do you explain the fact that my mother was born whole and healthy to a mother (my grandmother) who smoked incessantly even while she was pregnant ... my mother and uncle (who don't smoke) have never had respiratory problems though they were raised in a home where their mother smoked several packs a day ... that my grown nephew who was raised around two parents who smoke quite a lot has never indicated any sign of respiratory problems ... how do you explain those things? Or that my grandmother who smoked so heavily lived to be in her late 80s?

Cause and affect aren't always what they appear.

[Mears]

I would say your genes are different than most folks.

[stone fortress]

How do you explain the asthma attacks I get anytime I'm around cigarette smoke? I only get them around cigarettes, not other kinds of smoke. How do you explain the death of my sister at 36 from lung cancer when she never smoked a day in her life but lived for 22 years with my Mother and Father who both chain smoked (my Dad died a few years later from cancer). How do you explain this? I would just love to hear your explanation......

My ex-husband had parents who never smoked and he has asthma. I am sure that you have other triggers that either you do not know about or that you neglected to mention