Full Text of HJR0042 95th General Assembly
HJ0042 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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