The Asthma and Allergy Foundation has released its list of worst places to live with asthma (coming soon here). The worst 100 places to live includes three North Carolina cities: Greensboro (7), Charlotte (23), and Raleigh-Durham (53). (Article here). Hopefully, these type of studies can convince people that the pollution of North Carolinians has a serious impact on our health and persuade the legislature not to build road after road and neglect public transportation needs.
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Gasp . . .
Hey, don't you know that crappy air is just a small price to pay for growin' more bidness? We're the good roads state, son. The free market rules.
more roads + more cars = more money for oil companies
Do you see "kids dying of asthma" in that equation? I don't.
You must be a commie.
That's why I got an air filter
installed in my Ford Behemoth!
Another factor
I looked at the methodology a little closer and another factor weighing against North Carolina are our pro tobacco laws since cigarette smoke also affect asthma patients.