People don't "outgrow" their asthma. Asthma is a chronic illness and there is no cure. If you had asthma, but you no longer have asthma symptoms, chances are that you still have asthma.
But Recovered asthmatics don't think so. They may throw caution and proper asthma management to the wind now that they no longer cough, wheeze and struggle to breathe the way they did as children. But smoking is one of the worst asthma triggers and can cause serious lung damage, especially for asthmatics.
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