Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts the risk of mental illness in youth a little more, according to a new CU Boulder study of 10,000 9 to 11-year-olds. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, comes as smoke from Southern California fires blankets much of the West, thickening skies as far away as Las Vegas and parts of Colorado. While scientists have known for years that air pollution can harm lung and heart health, they’ve only recently begun to explore its impact on cognition and behavior
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