

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Barış Mustafa Poyraz
- Turkey
- Ankara
- Pneumology

SMOKING AND ASTHMA
Smoking is at the 1st rank for causes of avoidable death. Recently, millions of people persistently smoke despite all negative effects on their health in addition to the health of their families, children and workmates. The most important effect of the smoking on asthmatic patients is about the fact that it challenges treatment and control of the disease.

ONCE WE WERE CHILDREN.. THE LETTER OF A PATIENT
Packages were always kept in the crystal cigarette box on the table of the living room.. They were gifts for the guests.. Regular cigarettes were unacceptable; they must have been smuggled cigarettes as the foreign brand cigarettes were not even legally sold in the country then. The friends of my father had used to come to visit us.