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• NOx emissions contribute to ground-level ozone, which aggravates respiratory illnesses and causes lung inflammation, particularly for at-risk populations such as children, the elderly and those afflicted with asthma, emphysema, and other respiratory ailments.
Hawaiians have been reported to have relatively high rates of diabetes, renal and vascular disease, and tend to be afflicted at a younger age.
For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.
As an adolescent, he was afflicted by cryptorchidism, an especially ferocious hernia.
Reporters always like to take popular people down, and they're trained to sympathize with underdogs ("afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted").