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Dear ARB:  Please quickly enact and begin enforcing rules to ban
the sale of gas-powered gardening equipment such as lawnmowers and
leaf blowers.  In reality, the latter should more properly be
called "dust blowers," because they are used year-round in our
neighborhood and mainly blow particulates rather than leaves.

Our home on a cul-de-sac is surrounded by 7 other homes, almost all
of which employ gardeners who use dust blowers every week.  We hear
them 6 days a week, and must constantly run to close our windows to
keep out the gasoline exhaust fumes and dust.  

I began my career as a health educator for an affiliate for the
American Lung Association and later worked as an environmental
planner (much of it in air quality). As such, I implore ARB to
reduce the incidence of COPD in California by banning dust blowers.