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Air pollution damages children’s lungs
THE CANADIAN government medical histories, she also Dr. Stern can’t say definitely dioxide have harmful effects on air. When they dissolve in rain-
has released a scientific study sug- discovered that the Tillsonburg that the greater amount of acidic — the lungs,'* she says. water to form acid rain, these
gesting that acidic air pollution is kids have suffered more often pollution in the Tillsonburg air Dr. Stern points out that her pollutants do not pose a threat to
responsible for a greater incidence from four respiratory ailments: causes the poorer respiratory concern is not with acid rain, as) human beings. The threat comes
of lung ailments in Southern On- — stuffy noses, allergies to inhalants, health in’ the children there. such, but with the pollutants that instead when the pollutants are
tario school children: coughs with phlegm, and ‘There could be a difference in cause acid rain — the sulphates, breathed in and then dissolve in-
‘Dr. Bonnie Stern, a biologist in hospitalization by age two for lifestyle or climate between the (wo nitrates and sulphur dioxide in the side the. lungs.
the federal Department of Health breathing difficulties. towns that accounts for the lung a
and Welfare, surveyed 1[,400 / Air pollution tests conducted in problems,’’ she says. “But the
children aged 7 to 12, half of both towns revealed that the at-  cvidence suggests that the acidic
whom live in Tillsonburg, Ontario, mosphere in Tillsonburg contains pollution is the cause.
the other half in Portage la Prairie, significantly greater amounts of “There have been laboratory
Manitoba. the pollutants in acid rain: sulphur experiments that seem to indicate
Dr. Stern examined the dioxide, breathable sulphates and that sulphates, nitrates and sulphur
children's. lung capacities and nitrates.
found that the children in Tillson- “Tillsonburg is one of the most
burg had lung capacities about two highly polluted areas in Canada re ti
per cent smailer than‘those in Por- with regard to acid rain,’ * says Drs orrec on -
tage la Prairie. Examining their Stern. + Notice ”

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