The impact on performance skills generated from the respiratory system varies largely due to various factors such as whether you are a smoker or not. What you do for a living. For example, are you a firefighter around fumes constantly? Or are you a weight trainer always trying to keep healthy? The respiratory system would be impacted greatly by the performance skills of a cigarette smoker in a negative way, as opposed to the respiratory system’s affect on performance skills of a non-smoker. Therefore, these questions would require specific answers based on this system’s impact on those areas of performance skill. So in general, the respiratory system can have an impact on almost every aspect of life anywhere from how much endurance a person has on the field or track, to how long a person can stay standing in line at a store. So for this reason it is important to keep the respiratory system healthy to be able to perform functions as needed because the respiratory system can affect various other performance skills such as when trying to get into a car to go grocery shopping, carrying the groceries back to the car or running in the case of an emergency.