A mother calls the pediatrician's office requesting an appointment for her 8-year-old child. she states he has asthma and is telling her he had trouble breathing last night and does not want to go to school. in triaging this child, which is the most important question to initially ask the mother
since he was a child, he has had this disease and you and your spouse, who has the same disease as your child, inherits it because it is who smokes the smoke that comes from outside or inside the house is the reason for he will have asthma?