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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (135134)3/30/2001 11:09:02 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1571057
 
Sometimes my eyes sting and my nose is stuffed up a lot but I think that might have to do more with pollen then pollution. It didn't happen much when I lived in Nassau County NY which has a much greater population density then Fairfax County VA, and is near NYC which has more then a dozen times as many people as DC.

f you answered yes to any of the above questions, is it possible that there is a correlation between D.C.'s smog and those symptoms or problems? Is there any chance you might believe that its at least partly responsible for the doubling of asthma cases in the developed countries in the past 10-20 years?

Its possible that DC smog is responsible but its unlikely that it is the only cause. I don't notice a lot of smog. I think the main reason that asthma cases have increased so much is better diagnosis and detection. Population growth has also contributed. Air pollution increased a lot more before the "past 10-20 year" time frame with much less increase in asthma. Many airborne pollutants have actually decreased in developed countries in the last 10 to 20 years. (They are however increasing in developing countries). What does this have to do with sperm counts? I might have a different explanation then you for the increase in asthma cases but I'm not disputing that there are a lot more reported asthma cases. What I was disputing was the claim that sperm counts are down 50% since the 1950's.

Tim
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