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= = Who gets Asthma?

====Asthma is very common among children, teens and adults. Anyone can get asthma- male and female, young and old, all can get this disease. In the United States, about 15 million people have asthma and more than six million teenagers and children all around the world have asthma. But six of the ten people that have asthma can not control their disease, causing them to have severe asthma attacks. However, those people that do know how to control their disease can live their life just like any other person. There are even some famous singer or writer that lived through asthma with no effects on their daily life. ====

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Avril Lavigne was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada on September 27th, 1984. She's currently 25 years old, and she has had asthma since she was a child. []  Charles Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812 and passed away on June 9th, 1870. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian Era. []  Tom won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games at Atlanta, Georgia. He had an asthma attack during his last lap. He has suffered from asthma since he was twelve. [] 

<span style="color: rgb(92, 36, 174);">Theodore Roosevelt had asthma during his childhood. He exercised and had less asthma attacks. []

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(92, 36, 174);"> <span style="color: rgb(195, 29, 215);">~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Overall, <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(92, 36, 174); font-family: 新細明體;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">it surprises us that so many well known people, past and present, have this disease, especially well-known singers like Avril Lavigne who can still lead a successful career even with this disease. This information should give hope to all the people in this world who have asthma that their lives can go on unaffected despite this unfortunate disease. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">

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<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">QUIZ QUESTION: How many teenagers and children around the world have asthma? = = = = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">|| CAUSE || EFFECTS || TREATMENT || PREVENTION|| HOME || NOTES || MLA || =