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Toxic fumes emitted by vehicles on the roads are taking a toll on the kids across the world including India where at least 3,50,000 children fell to chronic respiratory disease, asthma. India is second only to China, as per a Lancet study that analysed 194 countries and 125 major cities worldwide. Worldwide four million kids get asthma every year as a result of inhaling air pollution, said the study conducted by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health. And an estimated 64 per cent of these new asthma cases occur in urban areas. The study based on the data between 2010 and 2015 is published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.