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10/23/2019 7:41 PM
Environmental factors have a huge effect on health. As a child, I lived in the suburbs near an airport and my neighborhood was under one of the flight paths. A significant number of the children in my neighborhood, myself included, developed asthma because of the exposure to the jet fuel residue. It was only after moving to a rural area that had significantly less air pollution that my asthma mostly went away. There are a lot of things polluting our air and our water that we are not aware of, and they can have great impacts on our health.