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The smell of Fall in the air can be hazardous to your health. Be good to your lungs this year, skip the annual leaf burning. Instead bag your leaves and call on the Adair County Garden Club to come and collect them. Several members of the ACGC are available to collect bagged leaves. The leaves are mulched and turned into healthy compost for our gardens. Contact Barbara Armitage at 270-250-2979 to arrange for pick-up. By Barbara Armitage News from the Adair County Garden Club There are so many things that I remember from my childhood that I wish I could bring back, the smell of orange blossoms on the trees in my own backyard, all of us kids screaming and running when my grandfather would dump a "croaker sack" of crabs in the kitchen floor but there are some things better left in the past. My Pop used to burn leaves every weekend in the fall out at the lake cabin. Me, my best friend Diane and my brothers would run in and out of the smoke - we never gave it a thought. Of course back then people couldn't imagine that just breathing anything would make you sick much less kill you. Times have changed and now we know that the smoke from leaf fires can cause serious health problems. Leaf smoke can irritate the eyes, nose and throat of healthy adults. But it can be much more harmful to small children, the elderly, and people with asthma or other lung or heart diseases. This is because the smoke from leaf fires is made up almost entirely of tiny particles that can reach deep into lung tissue and cause symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, chest pain and shortness of breath - symptoms that might not occur until several days after exposure to large amounts of leaf smoke. Besides being an irritant, leaf smoke contains many hazardous chemicals, including carbon monoxide and benzo(a)pyrene. Carbon monoxide binds with hemoglobin in the bloodstream and thus reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood and lungs. Carbon monoxide can be very dangerous for young children with immature lungs, smokers, the elderly, and people with chronic heart or lung diseases. Benzo(a)pyrene is known to cause cancer and is believed to be a major factor in lung cancer caused by cigarette smoke. It is found in cigarette smoke and coal tar as well as leaf smoke. - BARBARA ARMITAGE. Be good to your lungs this year - skip the annual leaf burning. Instead bag your leaves and call on the Adair County Garden Club to come and collect them. Several members of the ACGC are available to collect bagged leaves. The leaves are mulched and turned into healthy compost for our gardens. Contact Barbara Armitage at 270-250-2979 to arrange a pickup. This story was posted on 2011-10-12 08:55:34
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