Asthma is nasty because it could kill you if not handled or treated right. To make it worse, being afraid of the condition, you could also keep your own self from achieving things. However, if you took the trouble to learn all that you can about the disease, and to know how far you can stretch it, you could learn to live a very happy and fulfilling life despite it all.
The inhaler asthmatics carry with them is not exactly a cure for the condition. More, it is only a means to get by from moment to moment, at any time that they feel uncomfortable. And when they get one of those crises that hit like a storm wave, they really must get to that inhaler pretty quick.
You could suffer from asthma, but you don't have to let the condition rule your life. It might be strange to you but a lot of people live with it all over the world and they are still great achievers. One of those popular Olympic athletes who run the marathon suffers from asthma, but you don't see him die from it, do you? No; he went on and won the gold medal.
I never even had an idea what those cigar-like things were in the hands of some people until I was about twelve years old. That was the first time I saw someone put the thing into their mouth and take a deep drag. I had seen enough of movies to think this dude was a junkie, but I had a word with my mother later that night, and she told me that the guy was only trying to deal with his asthma condition.
There are a lot of folks who live with asthma everywhere you go. Most of the time, unless they tell you, you'd never know that they were. Otherwise, you might just see them inhaling one of those; inhaler things that asthmatics carry all over the place.