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I live in Butler County on the border with Allegheny County-Pittsburgh region. I have asthma and allergies having spent my childhood in Pittsburgh and in a household of smokers.

My sister passed away at 19-years-old due to a fatal asthma attack. She had many triggers including allergies, smoke, heat/humidity, etc. I know th...

My wife and I live here in the foothills of Yuma half of the year in fall and winter. The rest of the time is in Washington East of Tacoma in Puyal...

I have COPD and am 42-years-old. I have had one lung removed and am trying to get a lung transplant. Otherwise, without a transplant, I'm in for a ...

We have raised our son between NYC and Denver. We left NYC because of his terrible cough that no doctor could explain. It has persisted into Denver...

I had to take first grade over because I was absent so much from respiratory problems due to secondhand smoke. My dad died from a massive heart att...

Imagine what it would feel like to take a breath when your lungs were already full of air. Try this. Take in a deep breath. Hold it in for three seconds and don’t exhale. Now try taking another breath, and another one.

My son has cystic fibrosis and there is currently no cure. His lung function will deteriorate throughout his life until it steals him from this wor...

My husband and I live in Elizabeth Township, pa. The CLAIRTON MILL blows across our area, and all of the surrounding areas.

For the past seven months the Army Corps of Engineers, as part of a groin/jetty project in the Rockaways, has put a staging site within 50 feet of my condominium on Beach 116th Street beach area which has 93 apartments.

I am living in low income housing with a disability and I am a single parent. It seems no one who runs our building has any concern about creating a healthy environment.

Air pollution is a serious health threat.

This is about my severe asthma and moderate COPD. Next month I will have my annual breathing test and let the pulmonologist tell me what stage I am in. I haven't smoked cigarettes in 10 years!

On calm, clear winter nights, our town fills with blue smoke from woodstoves and fireplaces. My eyes burn, head aches and I awake with severe congestion. Some years this happens a few times, but this past year it happened for two months straight.

I'm Brennah and I am a current Oregon Kid Governor Cabinet member. My platform is Air Pollution.