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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Lung disease has grown steadily over the last | ||||||
3 | three decades and women are bearing a disproportionate share of | ||||||
4 | the health risk; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Gender differences in lung health prompted the | ||||||
6 | American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago to create | ||||||
7 | Catch Your Breath, a year-round educational initiative; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The number of women diagnosed with chronic | ||||||
9 | obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), largely emphysema and | ||||||
10 | chronic bronchitis, has surged ahead of men; and
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11 | WHEREAS, In a recent 14-year period, asthma rates among | ||||||
12 | women jumped 97%, compared to a 22% increase in men; and
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13 | WHEREAS, When it comes to lung cancer, more women die from | ||||||
14 | the disease than from any other type of cancer, and female | ||||||
15 | smokers may be twice as likely to develop lung cancer than male | ||||||
16 | smokers; and
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17 | WHEREAS, For the first time in 2000, more women died from | ||||||
18 | COPD than men; more than 80,000 American women are affected by | ||||||
19 | lung cancer each year, and more than 70,000 die from the | ||||||
20 | disease each year; and
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1 | WHEREAS, In 2003, 11.6 million females had asthma compared | ||||||
2 | to 8.2 million males, and cigarette smoking kills an estimated | ||||||
3 | 178,000 women in the United States annually; and
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4 | WHEREAS, The American Lung Association of Metropolitan | ||||||
5 | Chicago's Catch Your Breath Initiative advocates for | ||||||
6 | legislative change and increased funding for research, and | ||||||
7 | educates people about the impact of lung disease on women; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The American Lung Association of Metropolitan | ||||||
9 | Chicago will be hosting the Catch Your Breath, Women and Lung | ||||||
10 | Health Conference on Wednesday, May 2, 2007; therefore, be it
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11 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
12 | NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
13 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we proclaim May 2, 2007 as Catch | ||||||
14 | Your Breath Day in the State of Illinois; and be it further
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15 | RESOLVED, That we commend the conference and that all | ||||||
16 | members of the Conference of Women Legislators be listed as | ||||||
17 | Honorary Committee Members for the event.
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