Asthma Inhalers Central

In our first Famous Asthmatics article, we featured Beethoven, St. Bernadette, and Dennis Rodman (what an unlikely triumvirate!). Today, we have a trio composed again of people from different walks of life: Liz Taylor, Charles Dickens, and Dominique Wilkins.

Elizabeth Taylor, famous Hollywood star and two-time Oscar awardee for Best Actress. If there’s anyone who believes that asthmatics are sickly, atrophied people, he should take a look at the beauty that is Liz Taylor. Some asthmatics don’t take too kindly to perfume, so it might also seem ironic that Liz Taylor launched two perfume lines late in her career.

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Asthma sufferers, be heartened. We share the company of great people who battled asthma and lived life to the fullest, one way or another. This entry is the first in a series of Famous Asthmatics. I hope we can draw inspiration from these resilient people. The first trio: Beethoven, St. Bernadette, and Dennis “The Menace” Rodman.

Ludwig van Beethoven, master composer and piano virtuoso. According to Voices from the Past, Beethoven “composed unforgettable music while railing against ‘bumbling doctors’ — the best physicians in Vienna — who were unable to give him relief from asthma.”

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