i wan t help with an essay on traffic pollution, causes and prevention, and really fast.?

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i want this essay or some info on this quick. plz help!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Traffic pollution linked to severe asthma attacks

Friday, 6 June 2003

asthma patient
Asthma attacks may be exacerbated by traffic pollution
Asthmatic children exposed to traffic pollution before getting a viral infection have more serious asthma attacks, researchers have found.




In children, about 80% of attacks are due to viruses - most of them from the common cold virus. Researchers at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth, southern England, have discovered that exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from vehicle exhausts exacerbates the attacks.
NO2 is common but the main sources indoors are gas stoves and, outdoors, traffic pollution.

"It drops the lung function and increases the symptoms after a virus infection," said Dr Anoop Chauhan, a pulmonolgist at the hospital. "It can increase symptoms by as much as 200%."

Chauhan and his team measured the personal exposures of 114 asthmatic children between the ages of 8 and 11 from non-smoking families over almost a whole year.

They found a strong relationship between higher NO2 pollution and the severity of an attack.

With up to 150 million people worldwide suffering from asthma and cases expected to rise by 50% every 10 years, Chauhan said the findings reported in The Lancet medical journal could have important public health implications.

"These effects are occurring at levels (of pollution) that are currently considered to be safe by international quality standards. So it has an important bearing on what we should set as targets for air quality," Chauhan said in an interview.

Asthma affects the airways - small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs. It occurs when the tubes swell up and go into spasm blocking the free passage of air in and out of the lungs.

People with the illness suffer from coughs, wheezing and shortness of breath. A very severe attack may kill. Colds, the flu, cigarette smoke, pollen, stress and pollution can trigger an asthma attack. There is no cure for asthma but it can be controlled with drugs

"We know viruses trigger asthma exacerbation but this is another step forward because it tells us that pollution makes it (the attack) far worse than it should be," said Chauhan. "Maybe we should be looking at controlling air pollution to perhaps reduce the number of severe attacks of asthma."


On the Road to a Cleaner Future

Our practical, cost-effective blueprint for cleaning the air shows how we can cut unhealthful air pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes by 80% over the next ten years.

If we follow the three steps below, the parents of a young baby can be confident that, by the time their child is in 5th grade, the air will be substantially cleaner.

* Step 1: Clean Smokestacks - The EPA must build on its clean smokestack initiative for eastern power plants that cause particulate and smog pollution so that millions of families are not left behind in the West.
* Step 2: Clean Tailpipes - A national commitment is needed to replace or retrofit all existing diesel machinery within a decade to meet or exceed the federal standards being set for new engines.
* Step 3: Reduce Exposure to Traffic Pollution - Incentives should be built into the nation's transportation policies to limit traffic congestion in our communities, enhance travel options, promote smart growth, and speed introduction of cleaner engines.


Delivering Clean Air to Cities Nationwide

Technology to cut pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes is here, and American companies are already using it. Environmental Defense worked with FedEx Express to develop the next generation of clean trucks. In 2004, FedEx put into service 16 hybrid diesel-electric delivery vehicles in three cities: Sacramento, New York, and Tampa These hybrids emit 90% fewer emissions and increase fuel economy by 50%. (More about the FedEx Express program.)

States and cities across the country have designed local programs that model how to cut power plant pollution, retrofit diesel engines and use creative incentives to manage traffic pollution. Our team of experts recently hammered out a groundbreaking pact to cut air pollution from diesel equipment used at Los Angeles's main airport (LAX), both for new construction and for daily operations on the tarmac. (Read the full story.) A new law in North Carolina goes beyond the national standard for power plant emissions. New York City passed a law in 2004 that could cut diesel emissions from heavy construction machinery used in city projects by 90%.

At the federal level, we are fighting to protect the Clean Air Act and working to reach the law's full promise. Cleaning up the nation's air pollution problems is not an easy task, but these examples lead the way toward a healthier future.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

first you can think of the topics to write and try to elaborate it.
you can think of such topics as:
The causes of polution
The way to recycle
The many types of polution in a traffic, like- sound polution, the air polution and so on
The prevention of polution by cleaning the streets, traffic police and so on

try to elaborate and it would become an essay

Answer 4

search on google

Answer 5

why dont you visit some crowded and high dense city of under developing countries...!!?

Answer 6

go stand on any street you will experience it "first hand information"then write about it. you will be the best,trust me.

Answer 7

hope some of this can help ..good luck

http://www.sbcapcd.org/apcd/p2weekold.htm
http://www.ceegr.org/links/pollution.shtml
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/emotion.html

Answer 8

plz go and search in google. there r many of them there.