Fight Against Respiratory Diseases
“Breathe well to live better,” is the slogan adopted by the Algerian Committee to Fight Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (CALT-MR) for the themes of reflection and health education of the sixth anti-tuberculosis stamp campaign.
The CALT-MR did not consider it useful to choose a theme limited to the fight against tuberculosis given the progress made in Algeria for more than a quarter of a century, making it reasonable to believe that the disease is controlled or in the process of being so. (...) This is why the CALT-MR has, for several years, extended its action to the fight against all respiratory diseases other than tuberculosis, most often linked to the atmospheric environment and some of which are of major seriousness for the individual and the community.
Indeed, the lung is not only the organ responsible for the gas exchanges essential to life, but also a remarkable filter responsible for purifying the air breathed of all the nuisances which can contaminate it. This organ, which offers an exchange surface of approximately 80 m2, is in permanent contact over this entire surface with ambient air which is very often polluted, particularly in urban areas where the major causes of pollution are induced by domestic and industrial combustion sources as well as by motor vehicles in motion. (...)
Added to these pollutants are aerosols which are harmful due to the propellant gas composed of chlorofluorocarbon atoms, an agent responsible for the partial destruction of the ozone layer which protects life on our planet. (...) It is to allow everyone to reflect on the dangers of an unhealthy atmospheric environment for the community and on the need for everyone to contribute to preventing or at least not aggravating the pollution of the atmosphere around us that the Algerian Committee to Fight Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases chose this year the slogan “Breathe well for better living” as the theme of the sixth anti-tuberculosis stamp campaign (CTAT 1990).
The CALT-MR did not consider it useful to choose a theme limited to the fight against tuberculosis given the progress made in Algeria for more than a quarter of a century, making it reasonable to believe that the disease is controlled or in the process of being so. (...) This is why the CALT-MR has, for several years, extended its action to the fight against all respiratory diseases other than tuberculosis, most often linked to the atmospheric environment and some of which are of major seriousness for the individual and the community.
Indeed, the lung is not only the organ responsible for the gas exchanges essential to life, but also a remarkable filter responsible for purifying the air breathed of all the nuisances which can contaminate it. This organ, which offers an exchange surface of approximately 80 m2, is in permanent contact over this entire surface with ambient air which is very often polluted, particularly in urban areas where the major causes of pollution are induced by domestic and industrial combustion sources as well as by motor vehicles in motion. (...)
Added to these pollutants are aerosols which are harmful due to the propellant gas composed of chlorofluorocarbon atoms, an agent responsible for the partial destruction of the ozone layer which protects life on our planet. (...) It is to allow everyone to reflect on the dangers of an unhealthy atmospheric environment for the community and on the need for everyone to contribute to preventing or at least not aggravating the pollution of the atmosphere around us that the Algerian Committee to Fight Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases chose this year the slogan “Breathe well for better living” as the theme of the sixth anti-tuberculosis stamp campaign (CTAT 1990).