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Chapter 14 • Community & Public Health and the Environment • All answers are found in the textbook, do not use any other source

Textbook Title: An Introduction to Community & Public Health, 9th Edition (2018); Author(s): J. McKenzie, R. Pinger & D. Seabert; ISBN: 978-1-284-10841-5

PLEASE ANSWER EVERY SINGLE QUESTION.

9. As of September 2015, how many states (do not include the District of Columbia) have met the American Lung Association’s “SmokefreeChallenge” to pass comprehensive legislation prohibiting smoking in all public places and workplaces?

10. What two decades with steady deterioration of air quality led to the nation’s first serious attempt to regulate air pollution?

11. In 2010, more than one third of the world’s population (2.5 billion people) live with what?

12. The major source of lead intake for adults is what?

Answer 1

9.During the last century,smoking went from being an accepted norm to being recognized as the number of one preventable cause of death and disability in the united states.Each year smoking kills more people than all of the other health hazards such as HIV,alcohol abuse,drug abuse,motor vehicle crash injuries,murders and suicides

As of September 2105 Adoption of smoke free laws by 25 states and 30 states by 2012

10.Steady deterioration of air quality in the 1950's and 1960's led to the nation's first serious attempt to regulate the air pollution.

*Clean Air Act (CAA) :The federal law that provides the government with authority to address interstate air pollution problems was amended several times in the late 1960's,but much of the regulation was based on voluntary compliance.

The 1970 amendments to the CAA provided,the first comprehensive approach to dealing with the air pollution nation wide.The three significant components of these amendments were emission standards for automobiles,emission standards for new industries and ambient air quality standards for urban areas.The latter are known as National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQSs) .The standards created by the EPA for allowable concentration levels of outdoor air pollutants.

11.In 2010,over the 10 year of period an estimated 2.5 millions of deaths were lives with poverty

12.The EPA has estimated that about 40 millions of Americans who lives in home built before 1930 when copper began to replace lead in water pipes are drinking water containing morre than the legally permissible level of lead (15 parts per billion).The ingestion of these leads leads to poisoning