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About 21 percent of people with asthma smoke, even though cigarette smoke is known to trigger asthma attacks. Breathing someone else’s smoke also can trigger asthma attacks in nonsmokers. Jamason and his mother Sherri talk about the day Jamason had to go to the hospital after having a severe asthma attack at work, triggered by exposure to secondhand smoke. In this video from CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers campaign, Jamason admits that after such a severe attack, he was afraid to leave the hospital because he knew that outside, in the real world, people smoke. For more information about asthma and other respiratory diseases, download the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Smoking and Respiratory Diseases fact sheet.
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