Re: choking kids and big emitters

[Darryl McMahon <darrylmcmahon@IGS.NET>]

Tom Shay <tshay@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
>    This paragraph about choking children got my attention.  Tell us
> more.  Where does this happen? How often? How many children involved?
> Are some of them dying?  Older people affected too?  Is this just a
> problem in your local area?  Is the problem worse now than ten,
> twenty, thirty years ago?  What is being done to make others
> aware of the plight of these children?
>
>  Choking children is a serious enough matter to deserve some
> explanation and discussion.
>
>   I hope you aren't making this up or exaggerating to make your
> point about emmisions from larger vehicles.
I don't have any statistics at hand, but I do recall a brochure from
the Canadian Lung Association that indicated that the number of
instances of childhood asthma is increasing over the past 3 decades.
Our local hospital has recently purchased more oxygen rigs
specifically to handle childhood asthma attacks that were severe
enough to have parents bring their children to the ER for assistance.

I believe the CARB Web page has some statistics on the health effects
of air pollution, and there are European cities that now ban
or restrict fossil-fuel vehicles when they are having a "bad air
day".

If you need more info, I will see what I can come up with.  It will
be a couple of weeks before I can get to it, as other projects will
be taking up my time starting Friday for a while.


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Re: choking kids and big emitters