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News Articles: American Lung Association

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  • Children's Health

Children with asthma will be hit hard by Medicaid cuts, says American Lung Association

2 in 5 Georgia children rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for health care, experts say.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Men cross the street in smog filled downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. December 12, 2017. Sometimes during the winter, temperature inversions form in the Salt Lake Valley, when the upper air temperature is warmer than the air on the valley floor, forming a lid, trapping polluted air. REUTERS/George Frey

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Fulton County earns its first passing grade for air quality from the American Lung Association

Atlanta's ozone pollution is the fourth worst of cities in the Southeast. The Lung Association uses data from 2019 to 2021 in its 2023 report.

April 19, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A coughing man puts his hand out to keep people away

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American Lung Association says cases of whooping cough are rising. This is who's most at risk

Pertussis, commonly referred to as whooping cough, is a serious and highly contagious respiratory illness. There is a vaccine available for whooping cough, but only 30% of adults in the U.S. received it in the past 10 years.  

October 11, 2022
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Philip Morris International is buying Vectura, a large asthma inhaler-maker, in a move that health groups have urged Vectura shareholders to reject on both ethical and practical grounds.

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Philip Morris Is Buying An Asthma Inhaler Company. Health Groups Are Suspicious

The purchase "is the latest reprehensible choice from a company that has profited from addicting users to its deadly products," the American Lung Association said.

September 16, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
The midtown skyline stands in the background of Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. The 2020 State of the Air report uses data from 2016 to 2018.

Lung Association's Latest Report Shows Georgia's Air Quality Improved

It's Earth Day 2020 and while people on the planet are dealing with a pandemic, the American Lung Association has a bit of good news for Georgians: Some...

April 22, 2020
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  • Ellen Eldridge

Smoking Is Down But Vaping Is Up, Lung Association Says, 'Quit Don't Switch'

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cigarette smoking hit an all-time low in 2018, but vaping is on the rise, particularly among teens....

November 18, 2019
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  • Ellen Eldridge

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