Reuters: Air pollution and asthma symptoms may increase suicide risk, two new studies from Asia suggest. According to Taiwanese researchers, as many as 1 in 14 suicides among Taiwanese youth may have been caused by asthma, a condition that affects about 10 percent of children. “It points out another negative part of air pollution,” said Dr. Wayne Katon, a psychiatrist at the University of Washington in Seattle. “In a way, suicide is a proxy for a bad effect on the whole society,” …