a national security problem - babies

http://www.violatedrights.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=618&Itemid=2


Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Abnormalities


Polluted air is all around us. It's outside, it's inside, and unless you live in an isolated and pristine locale, it's pretty much unavoidable. Fortunately, for the inside your home, where studies have shown the air is most polluted -- an average of 2-5 times more polluted than outside! -- you will learn how you can dramatically reduce the amount of toxins to much safer levels.

As for city versus country, though, neither is "safe." If you live in a city, the air you breathe is subjected to toxins from industry, construction and exhaust from cars, buses and planes. In the country, the air gets polluted from dust, car, truck and tractor exhaust, pesticide dusters, rock quarries and smoke from wood and crop fires.

Those of us living in the most polluted cities may have a year or two shaved off our lives!

And all this pollution is affecting our health. One study published in the February 2005 issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention found that pregnant women in New York exposed to high levels of air pollution are more likely to have babies with genetic abnormalities linked to cancer than pregnant women exposed to lower levels.

In fact, children born to women who were exposed to the highest level of air pollutants (the air pollutants measured in the study were combustion-related pollutants, which typically come from car exhaust) had about 50 percent more genetic abnormalities than children whose mothers were exposed to lower levels.

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when will the damaged babies outnumber the undamaged?

they say if 50% of a country can't read, do simple math, the country will fall.

what was the percent of students graduating from HS this yr.?

special ed. classes are growing. autism is growing.

none of this was around when I went to school, or for that matter when my kids went to school. my kids were at the tail end of the good times in america. everything went to hell after that including the air we breathe.

So are dropout rates.

nt

You said things were better when you were a kid.

When on earth were you a kid?