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DID YOU KNOW....
- The majority of people spend over 90% of their time indoors?
- The EPA has issued warnings that indoor air quality is the number one environmental health problem in the United States?
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that indoor air is anywhere from 2 to 10 times more hazardous than outdoor air?
- That 60% of homes in the United States are considered “sick”?
- That the American College of Allergies believes 50% of all illness is caused or aggravated by polluted indoor air?
- That today's homes and buildings are so air-tight, they trap a long list of pollutants and keep out beneficial natural air-cleansing agents such as ozone and negative ions?
- That Scientific America contends a baby crawling on the floor of an average insulated home inhales contaminants equivalent to four cigarettes?
- Asthma cases have doubled since 1976 and about 1 in 9 children have asthma?
- While overall death rates due to asthma have tripled, they have quintupled in children ages 5 to 9 since 1976?
- Hospitalization rates from asthma have been increasing dramatically?
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