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Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. -- Steve Allen
And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability! -- Dominique Wilkins
Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people. -- Dominique Wilkins
As a child I had terrible asthma. -- Martin Scorsese
There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems. -- Dominique Wilkins
I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots. -- Alicia Silverstone
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. -- Ville Valo
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die. -- Esai Morales
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. -- Gwen Moore
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.' -- Barbara Boxer
I have exercise-induced asthma. -- Chyler Leigh
I've had asthma my entire life. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma. -- Cathy Freeman
Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled. -- Cathy Freeman
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away. -- L. Ron Hubbard
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years. -- Paula Cole
I have no sex appeal, which kills me. The only way I can ever hear heavy breathing from my husband's side of the bed is when he's having an asthma attack. -- Joan Rivers
For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked. -- Venus Williams
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma. -- Robert Winston
It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason. -- Stephen Fry
The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick. -- Gary Taubes
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today. -- Jim Davis
I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York. -- Josh Peck
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. -- Irving Kirsch
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school. -- Irwin Redlener
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company. -- James Hansen
I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious. -- Don McLean
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed? -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma. -- Greg LeMond
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia. -- Gary Shteyngart
I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains. -- Kevin McCloud
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma. -- Jeff Merkley
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled. -- Paul Hawken
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. -- Samuel Johnson
Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma. -- Charlie White
I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me. -- Les Dawson
if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke. -- Kiera Cass
When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before. -- Cathy Freeman
When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. -- Donald E. Westlake
When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. -- Donald E. Westlake
You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness. -- Harold H. Bloomfield
I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy. -- Vince Staples
First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports. -- Dominique Wilkins
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?" -- John Mendoza
Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know. -- Tyler, The Creator
I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia. -- Jessica Alba
If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai. -- Charles Nelson Reilly
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars. -- Irwin Redlener
He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent. -- Adam Levin
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. -- Thomas Keneally
Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially if applied at the onset of the disease. -- George Vithoulkas
In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment. -- Olafur Eliasson
As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. -- Patrick White

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