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I had seven COPD attacks last year as a result of the leaf and trash burning allowed within town limits of Victoria, VA. The smoke is so thick on s...

I have asthma, my children have asthma and my grandchildren (all four of them) have asthma. My mom had asthma and died at the age of 43 from it. I ...

I have two daughters, both influenced by other teenagers who vape.

I lost my beloved husband recently in January 17, 2022 to lung cancer.

This is my mom, Milta. This picture was taken in April after a two month stay in the hospital. 

I was diagnosed with Hypersensitive pneumonitis January 2002. I had been working at Ground Zero NYC following 9/11.

I joined the military 31 Mar,1960 and was sent to HVAC Tech school and that's when I was exposed to phosgene gas and welding/brazing fumes.

I smoked for many years when I was younger and completely understand the difficulty associated with moving on from something as addictive as smoking.

While working I was called and told news that forever changed me. "Jace, Raroo (grandma) has severe COPD and was given six months to two years left to live."

I want to share that I lost my dad on February 3, 2021 to lung cancer, stage IV, metastasized. He was 82 years old. 

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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.

In the northern part of Staten Island, north of the expressway, the terrace to the ferry, we are regularly, depending on the direction of the wind, hit with a noxious chemical smell, which causes chest issues, nausea, and headaches.

For several years, my husband and I have attempted - without success - to obtain assistance in rectifying what has become a serious concern in our small city: pollution from wood-burning backyard firepits. 

I was diagnosed in 2010 with COPD. In the past twelve years the air quality around me has impacted the progression of my situation incredibly often.