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What We Breathe Can Impact Asthma Risk Across Generations: Dr. Noel Explains!
In this episode of Facetime with Scientists, I interview Dr. Alexandra Noel, an inhalation toxicologist at LSU’s vet school. Dr. Noel studies how inhaled pollutants—air pollution, wildfire smoke, cigarette smoke, vaping aerosols, workplace nanoparticles, and microplastics—affect lung health.
Smoke, whether it is cigarette smoke or wildfire smoke, contains particulate matter as well as gases. Noel explains why particle size matters (PM10 vs PM2.5 vs ultrafine) and how smaller particles reach deeper regions of the lungs, worsening conditions like asthma. But she also points out that one of her…
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