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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . The agency said the declines measured in the late fall, winter, and early spring amounted to 4.5 to 5 percent in the last decade. According to agency calculations based on the new ozone findings, over the next 50 years about 12 million Americans will develop skin cancer, and more than 200,000 of them will die. Besides skin cancer, the harmful ultraviolet radiation can cause eye cataracts. Now chemicals called CFCs, released from refrigerators and air conditioners, are wafting upward, destroying the protective ozone in the stratosphere, allowing ultraviolet light levels to increase on the surface of the Earth.