Metropolitan Areas Most Polluted by Short-term Particle Pollution (24-Hour PM2.5)
2007 Rank 1 Metropolitan Statistical Areas
1 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
2 Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
3 Fresno-Madera, CA
4 Bakersfield, CA
5 Logan, UT-ID
6 Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL
7 Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield, UT
8 Detroit-Warren-Flint, MI
9 Eugene-Springfield, OR
10 Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, OH
11 Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
12 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Truckee, CA-NV
13 Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI
14 Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon, PA
15 San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA
What is Lung Disease Data: 2006?
The American LUNG ASSOCIATION has depicted salient facts and figures about some of the most commonlung diseases in America today.
The American Lung Association strongly believes that if cigarette smoking, preventable premature childbirth, disregard for workers’ safety, and violating clean-air laws were to end today, we could expect a future largely free of the most lethal forms of lung disease.
• Every year over 349,000 Americans die from lung disease – an age-adjusted death rate of 121.4 per 100,000.
• Lung disease is America’s number three killer (after heart disease and cancer), responsible for one in seven deaths.
• The lung disease death rate has been continuously increasing while death rates due to heart disease and cancer have been declining.
• Overall, various forms of lung disease and breathing problems constitute the number one killer of babies under the age of one year, accounting for 21 percent of infant deaths in 2002.
• More than 35 million Americans have chronic lung diseases.
• An estimated 440,000 Americans die each year from diseases directly related to cigarette smoking, including heart and lung diseases.
• Millions of children and adults with lung disease in this country are exposed to levels of ozone and particle air pollution that could potentially make them sick.
• Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis),the most common obstructive lung diseases, are associated with substantial health impairment and work disability. Nearly one in five cases of both diminished general health and depression can be attributed to obstructive lung disease.
• Lung disease costs the American economy $81.6 billion in direct healthcare expenditures every year, plus indirect costs of $76.2 billion – a total of more than $157.8 billion.
