Submitted by James Stepan, Jun 19, 2007 14:26

ASTHMA has been with humanity for a long time. I am an asthmatic and can speak with experience that much of what is asthma is reactive to sudden environment-emotional changes. Field sports activities are a firm indicator about my ability to participate. Soccer was especially difficult because of the heat, the field grasses, and the push-pull using my respiratory system just to play the game. I have never had good wind. Try me on a trumpet or clarinet and forget it! Impossible for me to push out one note; but too, do not put me into an invalid or victim case situation. When I was a child respirartory diseases also included polio with children living in iron lungs. Good science not political junk scientific "consensus" alleviated all but all of polio today so thank you Jonas Salk.

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