[Kitsa]

also, my pulmonologist says that in 50 years an asthmatic's lungs and a smoker's lungs look the same. He's trying to get me to take steroids and I'm fighting it because of the cancer history.

I have yet to work up the nerve to ask how, exactly, the lungs look the same, seeing as asthma doesn't leave much of a tarry residue or burn any cilia.