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The Environment and Asthma
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Increased environmental controls over outdoor and indoor air pollution will also improve quality of life of the patient with bronchial asthma as well as the entire population. Federal guidelines for outdoor pollution have been established under the Clean Air Act amended in 1990.
It covers automobiles and industry and sets air quality standards. Regional compliance with these standards has yet to be achieved, although progress has been made recently. Some states have passed laws with stricter standards that continue to tighten controls over automobile exhaust and the industrial combustion of fuels. Gasoline-engine manufacturers have reduced harmful emissions in their new vehicles by nearly 90 percent over the past twenty-five years, but makers of diesel engines have reduced noxious exhaust fumes by only half that percentage. New EPA guidelines, drafted in 1995 aim to reduce diesel emissions by another 50 percent by 2004. Increased attention has also been directed at control of chlorofluorocarbon propellants that destroy the ozone layer. Although some progress has been made toward cleaner air, air pollution will continue to be a major source of lung disease well into the next century. Greater attention must also be paid to “indoor pollution.” This problem is now largely unregulated. Standards developed for outdoor pollution cannot be applied equally indoors. Fortunately, great strides have been made to restrict cigarette smoking. Further restrictions and ultimately a total ban on public smoking would be an important step toward reducing indoor and outdoor pollution as well as improving the general health of the entire population. Every patient can be an active voice for improving the environment. Forming a Partnership against Asthma with Your Physician Although medications are likely to be better in the future, patients must maintain an active role in preventing asthma attacks, particularly by avoiding and reducing irritants and allergens in their home and work environments. If you have asthma, it is vital to acknowledge that you have a problem, then to deal with it by working with your physician. Tho often, denying the problem only leads to unnecessary illness. This first step may be the most important in a series of measures you can take to avoid asthma attacks. Other measures include an “early warning system” that relies on home peak flow measurements and close communication between patients and their physicians to prevent serious and even potentially fatal attacks. Patient education should be given a high priority by physicians and their staffs. Self-education should always be encouraged. Through dialogue and education patients can recognize when they must call for assistance, thereby avoiding the life-threatening tendency to “push through” a serious asthma attack on their own. This partnership between patients and physicians, both working toward reducing the frequency and severity of attacksBusiness Management Articles, can succeed in improving the quality of life for those who have asthma. Cooperation can also reduce the number of fatal asthma attacks that often could have been prevented by earlier recognition and treatment of this largely reversible disease.
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Product Environmental Claims - Overselling, or sowing seeds for the future?
This article is written and owned by Chris A Watkins
The Motor Manufacturers are now being told that thier advertised environmental claims are potentially misleading.
Only four years after Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla) attempted to label Global Warming as a hoax the business world seems to have embraced environmental sustainability so thoroughly that ‘green’ has become the new ‘black’ in marketing.
Intel, AMD, VMware, Microsoft and many others have developed green facets to their advertising. The motor manufacturers have become so enthusiastic in boasting environmental claims that their advertising is now being labeled as potentially misleading. While it could be assumed that the marketing gurus are more in touch with the public mood than the politicians, it wouldn’t do to forget that many of the products being advertised in this manner were under development well before Sen. Inhofe’s amazing gaff. That being the case, it may also be assumed that the features so enthusiastically touted as green aspects were designed with completely different motives in mind.
Certainly, in computer manufacture, the new quad processors from Intel and AMD do require less energy for the same level of performance than earlier offerings, but a cynic would say that the motive behind the development was increased productivity rather than reduced electricity consumption.
The same thing could be said about American bio-fuel development and production. Research into fuel produced from algae by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) started in 1978, well before environmental sustainability was on the general public radar. The motivation back then was national motor fuel independence, only now is it seen as having a broader import for the world.
So, is it wrong to for business to claim environmental benefits for products in this way?
If a product uses less energy, produces less heat or has significantly reduced emissions than its predecessor, it does have less of an environmental impact. Therefore, it would seem perfectly valid to use that benefit in promotion, especially if the feature also gives an edge in a competitive market.
The general mood is changing and that change is moving very rapidly. It is now socially acceptable throughout the western world to drive a smaller car, walk or cycle when possible, re-cycle waste and generally show an environmentally concerned attitude to life.
Did that come about because certain enlightened politicians led public thinking in that direction? Did it come about as a result of the enthusiastically waving of placards by concerned environmentalists?
OrScience Articles, did corporate advertising and marketing have something to do with the sway of public opinion?
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