Air Pollution Stunts Lung Development in Teens

wyomingtim

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Yep, President Bush is responsible for all of the pollution in the world today. Why not put facts up rather than your personal opinion of the President?

From the article:

"They therefore followed children from age 10 to age 18, performing breathing tests each year. The study started with 1759 children enrolled in 1993, but with an attrition rate of approximately 10 percent annually, the final group included 747 subjects in 2001"

Hmmmm, I guess that one year (2001) under Bush was the bad year, not the 7 years under Klinton.

That being said, where is the data about how many of those kids grew up in smoking households. How many of those kids smoked themselves? This is not mentioned in the article.

Is pollution a problem, sure. I just think that the world blames America first because it is easy to blame the best. I don't know all of the stats, but I would think that we have the strictest emissions in the world for the most part. I have been to many other countries, and I think that our air is pretty darn good compared to most of them.
 
Haven't read the article AND am not going to but...
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....how many of these kids are the overweight, under exercised, models that I see trudging back and forth when I'm dropping off my girls?????


I'm sorry but the biggest problem I see with most of todays kids begins at the the navel and ends at the ass- They are F-A-T and doing nothing about it! NO WONDER they can't take a full breath...

....and next they'll be blaming Bush for T.V., Gameboys, Twinkies, and Soda-pop... :rolleyes:
 
How's Dubya been doing on enforcing the Clean Air Act? Terrible!

" Long-term exposure to air pollution adversely affects lung function in teenagers, results of The Children's Health Study indicate.

Previous studies of the effects of air pollution followed young children for only 2 to 4 years, Dr. W. James Gauderman and colleagues note in their paper, published in The New England Journal of Medicine (news - web sites). ......."The bigger consequences are likely to occur later in life, because data show reduced lung function in elderly patients is a strong risk factor for respiratory disease and heart disease, as well as death due to those conditions," he continued.


"The concern is that if deficits develop early on and are carried with them throughout life, they'll be at increased risk for these conditions at a younger age or perhaps at risk for more severe forms of those illnesses."
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040908/hl_nm/teen_lungs_dc_1
 

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