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Page 34 THE HERAU Wednesday November 22 1989 Doctors getting tough on air pollution DR The lines are already being drawn in what become a major health issue of the 90s air pollution Experts disagree about how serious the prob is but many doctors and author ties at the Environmental Protection believe that dirty air is an lm portant and preventable cause of serious permanent lung damage in and children in patients with chronic pulmonary disorders At one end of the scale are repre sentatives of industry whose views were heralded in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial critical of President Bushs billion billion air clean up plan The smog lobbv ought to stand up and explain in detail what real risks justify the high cost The draconian solutions seem out of pro portion to what actually is known about the problem the editorial said On the other hand the EPA has re ported that more than areas in the country containing more than million people fail to meet federal air quahiv standards According to lung specialists writing in the doctors magazine Medical World News the impact of air pollutants is consider able depletion of pulmonarv reserve chronic inflammation involving tually all lung tissue and suscepttbil to infection Cajcinogenic cancer causing drocarbons are present to varying degrees in the everyone These compounds ire produced by automobiles dicsel engines and indus trial manufacturing Of equal importance however are air pollutants such as sulfuric acid and nitrogen dioxide both of which in tensify the harmful ozone i naturally occurring unstable form of oxygen that is poisonous to lung sue To the dismay of observers verse consequences of air pollution are increasingly being seen in small town America where air quality stan dards have been believed to be acceptable For example studies by Homer professor of pulmonary dis ease at the University of California showed that physical activity in nor mal air was potentially hazardous People performing intermittent exer in supposedly safe unfilterec air had the same inflammation and detenoiation of lung function seen in people exposed to short term high ozone levels In fact athletes may be particularly prone to lung damage from ozone because breathing though the mouth bypasses natural air filters in the nose also athletes breathe more deeply when exercising Although all adults lose lung ity as they age air pollution appears to increase the rate and severity of the depletion Doctors who treat asthma and other lung disorders ex press concern about the increased in cidence of asthma a phenomenon they attribute to air pollution that is no longer confined to urban centers Unfortunately prohibitive costs prevent researchers from performing the complex and sophisticated studies needed to prove unequivocally that normal persons are being affected air pollution non urban areas Nonetheless preliminary data gest disturbing trends example Harvard investigators discovered as much respiratory illness imong 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