Air pollution: The dirty truth
By: Ryan Holst
Air pollution comes in many forms; dirt, dust, ozone, and carbon monoxide to name a few.
Carbon monoxide is produced "any time you burn fuel in cars or trucks, small engines, stoves, lanterns, grills, fireplaces, gas ranges, or furnaces. CO can build up indoors and poison people and animals who breathe it."
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, a research professor at the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, Spain . . . and other researchers outfitted 54 schoolchildren
in Barcelona with air pollution monitors.These monitors measured black carbon, which consists of small sooty particles released by diesel engines and other sources.
Air pollution is an athsma trigger
"During the 1996 Summer Olympics Games in Atlanta, when peak morning traffic decreased 23% and peak ozone levels decreased 28%, emergency visits for asthma events in children decreased 42%. At the same time, children’s emergency room visits for causes other than asthma did not change." Think about it. Dirty air hurts kids with athsma. And thats not all