"What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them."
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"An estimated 20 million people in the United States have asthma and, despite the availability of treatments, it remains poorly controlled among many."
-Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America

"It's time to end our complacency about asthma, which can, and does, kill."
-Dr Kevin Stewart, from the Royal College of Physicians