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Cause And Effect Of Air Pollution

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On certain days one may notice it seems to be a little harder to breath when you’re outside for a while. Or if one is outside for a while they start to cough and get a tickle in the back of their throat. Those are symptoms of a bad air pollution day. These are days when the air pollution could be higher because of certain circumstances. There are different kinds of air pollution and all of it has effects on one’s health.
Air pollution is caused by many different types of things such as our cars and coal burning plants but it can also be caused by natural causes such as a wildfires. The ozone unfortunately catches the most air pollution and this is due to our car emissions chemically reacting with the sunlight. This bad for the population because this type of pollution gathers close to ground and is considered to get worse in the summer time. Children, elderly and people who spend lots of time outside are most at risk of becoming sick. Children can experience coughing and wheezing. If they have asthma the pollution can cause their asthma to worsen. If they continue to be outside for long periods of time during the bad ozone days it can result in permanent lung damage. Elderly who already have existing issues such as lung disease are at risk because it can worse their symptoms. People who are healthy but spend most of their time outside can notice that they are coughing more and this because the bad ozone has inflamed their lungs. Bad ozone is worse around heavily populated

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