Asthma and Air Quality, do they have a link?

Basically, I need to find out whether there is a link between asthma cases and air quality in the past 20 years and present it in a report. I've been up since 7am trying to complete it but I can't find and relevant information.

If you could, please link me to websites about;
-the effects of bad air quality/pollution
-graph showing the number of asthma cases/sufferers in the past 20 years
-graph showing air quality/pollution in the last 20 years or so
-explanations for the graphs

And anything else that will help me answer the question.

Thanks

Oh my gosh do they ever.

I only had sport induced asthma until I went to college...my dorm has no a/c and gets dusty probably with in a few hours of cleaning it. I am now on daily asthma medication and I run a humidifier at night.

I have asthma attacks on Code Red weather days...days where they tell high risk people to stay inside (I didn't have a choice...last day of band camp) b/c the air is such poor quality you really cannot breath properly even if you dont have asthma.

I would just search www.weather.com or even like a major health website like www.webmd.com for actual statistics. dont worry you will find them b/c there is most definitely a correlation b/w asthma and air quality.

They most certainly do, the worse the air quality, the worse the asthma, for more information on air quality issuses, go to http://www.weather.com

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