Childhood Asthma - Fish

Childhood asthma in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Since 1980, the number of people diagnosed with asthma has more than doubled-and the number continues to increase each year. This disease affects 1 out of 13 kids under 15, or 5.5 million.

Asthma is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism -responsible for about 10 million missed days, roughly 2 million emergency room visits, and approximately 5,000 deaths. And these statistics only account for known cases of asthma-many cases remain undiagnosed.

Although there is no known cure for this disease, experts agree that there are a variety of ways to reduce the number of asthma attacks. The latest PSAs highlight some unexpected items that can trigger asthma attacks and simple ways to take care of these items so that they are safer for a child with asthma.

The PSAs direct parents to call 1-866-NO-ATTACKS or visit www.noattacks.org to learn how to stop asthma attacks before they start. This campaign launched in March 2001, and includes PSAs of all media types in Spanish.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• childhood
• asthma
• attacks
• kids
• health
• psa
• ad
• council

[Zer0Saturation]

PETA needs to jump up this company's ass asap.

[nma305]

I love listening to that kid say "Hostible"..

[Gcs9675]

0:10 is awesome and 0:12 is too

[ntechnotalk]

fish abuse

[lovesinger11]

I always get so sad with this commercial, cause I have a little nephew with asthma and I would hate to see something like that happen to him. ALso seriously guys take this commercial seriously, stop making rude things

[Vr4z1el]

I wonder how many gold fish they killed to create this commercial?

[v22losangeles]

I have asthma...and I am SURE there is a better way to get the point across than throwing a poor fish on a table and letting it suffer to the sound of a creepy kids voice...just sayin'

[Quamlen]

And I thought I was the only one who find's that kid's voice annoying. Vote thumbs up if you agree.

[MaxGoesFourth]

@Zer0Saturation Yeah! They'll have to euthanize more goldfish than ever before!

[magyarfull]

@yarelinzavala ...but how would we let others know that when we walk through car exhaust, or others cigarette smoke, hot humid air, crisp winter days we breath the same way.

[magyarfull]

@francisgaribayABC What makes you think they killed it? I have had asthma since I can remember...

[kyranirvanna]

Poor goldfish...