Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Both primary and second-hand cigarette smoke are very dangerous, I have asthma and a tendency toward bronchitis and pneumonia because I grew up in the house with a smoking mom.
Seems we have something in common, birdgirl. I was actually born three months premature and have chronic asthma as a result. Both of my parents were heavy smokers when I was younger (and quite frankly, they still are), and my mom even admitted to smoking while she was pregnant with me. What makes this situation quite ironic is that my mom is a registered nurse.

The doctors told me that I should have grown out of my asthma by now, but no luck. They think I either have a genetic predisposition towards asthma, or that my parents really did smoke too heavily around me as a small child.