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Further research shows that kids are far more likely to experience Lung damage as an adult from living and growing up in areas where high levels of smog have been measured.

In 2004, The Journal of the American Medical Association linked higher death rates caused by smog or often called ground ozone".

Smog has the following effect on our children:

Damaged cells in the lung's airways, causing inflation and swelling of the lungs.

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Sneezing, wheezing and other neurological problems.
Decreased breathing capacity (cough and chest pain)
Decrements of lung functioning (reduced ability to take a breath)
Changes in lung structure with possible increases in lung disease.
Further evidence shown by the University of Southern California, show for the first time that ozone may actually cause asthma. In 12 California communities 3500 children were studied with no history of asthma. The results showed that children who played in areas where there were high ozone levels were 3 times more likely to develop asthma. There was no increased risk for asthma development in areas of low ozone concentration.
California reports approximately 9,000 deaths annually from complications from air pollution.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment reported that one in every 15,000 Californians - about 66 per million - is at risk of contracting cancer from breathing chemicals in the air over his or her lifetime.
In New York, researchers estimated that the annual death toll is approximately 319 annually in New York City.
23 European cities, found that death from respiratory disease was more strongly associated with ozone exposure that was with cardiovascular rates.
India (57K), Indonesia (15K), China (16.K) Russian Federation(19K) people die of asthma annually.
The health impact of air pollution in Italian cities is large: 8220 deaths a year.
When Hong Kong made regulations to reduce sulphur emissions, each Hong Kong resident gained extra weeks of living for every year of breathing dirty air.

Interesting Fact: The Great London Fog In 1952, was responsible for killing over 12,000 people. According to London papers, London was known for Fog, so know one really noticed that they were running out of caskets and flowers until it had been nearly a week. Note: the fog lasted only 5 days!

Geography does dictate and has always dictated healthy outside air quality issues. If you live in certain areas of our

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