Three in four Americans (74%) say that they or a close family member has lived in
a community where one or more environmentally-related problems with air, water or food were a cause of a health problem, and one in four (23%) say they know someone whose health was harmed due to an environmental problem, according to a new national survey funded and released by Health-Track, a national public health organization,
The survey of registered voters was conducted April 20-30, 2000, among
1,565 men and women nationwide by Princeton Survey Research
Associates. Results show: