Asthma, it's a bad thing: Why you should probably care about Trump's regulation slashing

This story is part of a special package for Creative Loafing's Earth Day Issue, hitting stands on Thursday, April 20.
Drive by a paper mill or a steel mill or a sugar mill, and you’ll notice a couple of things.
First, the vista won’t be pleasant. Smoke will be billowing out at untold volumes in unpleasant hues.
Then there’s the smell in the air, which will be akin to rotting organic material of the unspeakable variety.....

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Sturgis boy dies of apparent asthma attack near Vale

A 12-year-old Sturgis boy died Wednesday from an apparent asthma attack, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said.
No foul play is suspected in the death of Jaden Paklin, according to a release from the sheriff's office. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death, but authorities suspect it may have been allergy- or asthma-related.....

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CDC Tips Campaign Can Help You Help Your Asthma Patients

As a kid who grew up with asthma, Jamason knew exactly what to say when his friends tried to get him to smoke: no! But he couldn’t control people smoking around him in the restaurant where he worked, and one day when he was just 16 that smoke triggered an asthma attack that put him in the hospital for four days.
“My chest got really tight,” says Jamason. “I was just trying to breathe, trying to get air in my lungs. I couldn’t bear it.” Breathing treatments got him through the hospitalization, but then he was afraid to leave. “I wanted to go home,” he says, “but, then again, I didn’t, because I knew there was no smoking inside the hospital. But outside, in the real world, people smoke”.....

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