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Smoke from Canadian wildfires is casting a pall over the region and creating adverse health impacts for area residents akin to smoking, with conditions local experts worry will become more frequent.
Several studies have drawn a connection between living in neighborhoods that were subject to redlining, the historic discriminatory mortgage lending practices instituted in the 1930s, and an increased likelihood that a resident will suffer from asthma today. Experts say the historic systems and structures which pushed many African Americans into redlined communities affect many Cleveland and Akron residents who live in the Ohio Valley Asthma Belt today.