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Breath of Life

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
From HealthDayNews

Sept. 13, 2004 — The air in some parts of Southern California is so dirty that it impedes the development of children's lungs.

By the time they are 18, many children who grow up in polluted areas have lungs that are underdeveloped and will likely stay that way into adulthood, claims a study in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Article from: ABC News

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