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    This document summarizes the environmental and health impacts of air pollution in 3 paragraphs. It discusses how air pollution reduces the average human life by 1-2 years and causes issues from minor irritations to death. Air pollution enters the lungs and bloodstream, exacerbating conditions like asthma and increasing risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Rising air pollution levels will lead to more severe health impacts like premature aging if not controlled. Suggested solutions include reducing energy consumption through responsible habits and more efficient devices.

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    This document summarizes the environmental and health impacts of air pollution in 3 paragraphs. It discusses how air pollution reduces the average human life by 1-2 years and causes issues from minor irritations to death. Air pollution enters the lungs and bloodstream, exacerbating conditions like asthma and increasing risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Rising air pollution levels will lead to more severe health impacts like premature aging if not controlled. Suggested solutions include reducing energy consumption through responsible habits and more efficient devices.

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    This document summarizes the environmental and health impacts of air pollution in 3 paragraphs. It discusses how air pollution reduces the average human life by 1-2 years and causes issues from minor irritations to death. Air pollution enters the lungs and bloodstream, exacerbating conditions like asthma and increasing risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Rising air pollution levels will lead to more severe health impacts like premature aging if not controlled. Suggested solutions include reducing energy consumption through responsible habits and more efficient devices.

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    This document summarizes the environmental and health impacts of air pollution in 3 paragraphs. It discusses how air pollution reduces the average human life by 1-2 years and causes issues from minor irritations to death. Air pollution enters the lungs and bloodstream, exacerbating conditions like asthma and increasing risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Rising air pollution levels will lead to more severe health impacts like premature aging if not controlled. Suggested solutions include reducing energy consumption through responsible habits and more efficient devices.

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    Nicarl Shane L.

    Delfin 8-Velasco Research

    Title: Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution

    Abstract:
    Air pollution has been recognized as a threat to human health
    since the time of Hippocrates, 400 BC. Successively written accounts
    of air pollution occur in different countries through the following two
    millennia until measurements, from the eighteenth century onwards,
    show the growing scale of poor air quality in urban centers and close
    to industry, and the chemical characteristics of the gases and
    particulate matter. 

    I.
    Do you know that an average American breathes 2 gallons of air
    per minute, which means around 3400 gallons of air each day?
    Inhaling air pollution takes away at least 1-2 years of a typical human
    life. It has effects as small as burning eyes and itchy throat too as
    large as breathing problems and death.

    Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater,


    and industrial waste are dumped into US water. While children make
    10% of the world’s population, over 40% of the global burden of
    disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die
    annually from environmental factors.

    II.
      When we breathe, pollution enters our lungs and can enter our
    bloodstream. Air pollution can contribute to small annoyances like
    coughing or itchy eyes. It can also cause or worsen many lung and
    breathing diseases, leading to hospitalization, cancer, or even
    premature death.

    We should not take air pollution lightly, air pollution is one of the
    most serious problems in the world. It refers to the contamination of
    the atmosphere by harmful chemicals or biological materials

    III.
    Air pollution is known to irritate the eyes, lungs, nose, and throat.
    It creates respiratory problems and exacerbates existing conditions
    such as asthma and emphysema. When continually exposed to air
    pollution, humans become at higher risk for cardiovascular disease.
    Like me who has asthma, I tend to sneeze when I smell the smoke of
    cigarettes

    From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air
    pollution poses a major threat to health and climate. Ambient air
    pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to
    stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, acute and chronic respiratory
    diseases.

    If air pollution is not controlled, by 2030 the air will become so


    poisonous that it will be necessary for us to breathe easily. Rising air
    pollution will also lead to premature aging. Human exposure to air
    toxins will increase the extent of air pollution is not controlled.

    IV.

    My suggestions for a possible solution for air pollution are turning


    off the light when not in use, using paper bags instead of plastics,
    recycling and reusing, and using filters for chimneys.
    Producing clean energy is crucial. But almost equally important
    is to reduce our consumption of energy by adopting responsible habits
    and using more efficient devices.

    V.

    We should not take air pollution lightly. While the effects of air
    pollution on materials, vegetation, and animals can be measured,
    health effects on humans can only be estimated from epidemiological
    evidence. Too much exposure to it can cause big major problems in
    our bodies.

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