🚀 go-pugleaf

as people age. remember its the quality and condtion of health that is 
important not the age that you die. For many people in our cities choking on 
pollution is the reason your relatives died or lost their health and guess 
what . we could have done more sooner to stop it. and still this following 
report won't be touted too much in mass media or followed up on ? Paris 
hilton is more important?
importance to its effects.
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>The following link   is just one report of the many stuides I have left 
>about pollution and are out and about on the net but is ignored in a good 
>percent of  major cities tv and newspaper  news and where reporters hardly 
>question gov officials. to follow up on it. People who lived in my city 
>with high levels of pollution or or have lived here without protection and 
>warnings for years   have good reason to think they were poisoned without 
>politicians caring to do more or to warn people or protect people.. Like I 
>said. its not the doughnut necessarily,its not the mysterious unknow 
>disease that strikes down people  its the pollution that are killing people 
>here and you think professionals or people who want to better the  city 
>will stay here in the meantime.. who is left?
Ultra-fine particulate matter has been linked with premature death, 
cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness, according to the California 
Air Resources Board. Though it takes Americans an average of 25 minutes to 
drive to work, according to 2005 U.S. Census Bureau figures, the board 
estimates that over 50% of a person's daily exposure to ultra-fine particles 
can occur during a commute.

Likewise, a 2005 study by researchers at the University of Southern 
California's Keck School of Medicine showed that long-term exposure to 
ambient particulate matter may contribute to atherosclerosis, the hardening 
and narrowing of the arteries.

"Particle pollution kills people, whether they're breathing it in over a 
short period or day in and day out for a year," Nolen says. "It's not like 
being hit by a car, but it shortens the lives of people by months to years."

Even if you live in a city with low pollution levels, don't kid yourself; 
that doesn't necessarily mean your commute is healthy. A 2007 report by the 
Clean Air Task Force that investigated diesel exhaust levels during commutes 
in New York, Boston, Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, documented diesel 
particle levels four to eight times higher inside commuter cars, buses and 
trains than in those cities' ambient outdoor air.

The only commutes found to be low in diesel exposure were those on 
electric-powered subways and commuter trains, buses running on alternative 
fuels or retrofitted with diesel particulate filters, and in cars traveling 
with little truck traffic