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America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses, a February 2003 publication of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), documents changes in children’s environmental exposures and illnesses possibly related to those exposures. Fewer children are being exposed today to such air contaminants as ozone or particulate matter, indoor air pollution such as tobacco smoke, and lead. The report says that incidence of childhood asthma rose between 1980 and 1995 from 3.6 percent to 7.5 percent, and it documents a rise in the number of emergency room visits due to asthma attacks between 1992 and 1999 from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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