Air and your health
Subtitle: clean air is vital to your health
By: Beatrice Trum Hunter.
Series: Basic health guides
Publisher: Basic Health Publications; Basic Health Pubns
Published: 2004
Place of publication: North Bergen, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects; Indoor air pollution -- Health aspects; Lungs -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-129) and index.
Table of contents: title: Air and your health; title: An introduction to the lungs; title: Young children and air pollution; title: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,; title: Asthma; title: Indoor air pollution; title: Indoor air pollution: an introduction; title: Radon: an invisible indoor air pollutant; title: Formaldehyde: a pervasive indoor air pollutant; title: Cigarette smoke: a pollutant that affects everyone; title: Other indoor air pollutants of concern; title: Outdoor air pollution; title: Outdoor air pollution: an introduction; title: Dusts and particulate matter; title: Smog, inversions, soot, and ozone; title: Acid rain; title: Disasters and airborne pollution; title: MTBE: a case of unintended consequences; title: Attempts to regulate air pollution.