Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...served as a general practitioner for more than a quarter of a century in Bremen, Ind. He knows about the ravages of long illness personally as well as professionally: his first wife Beth spent the last three months of her life in a hospital before she died of bone cancer in 1981. The experience was "devastating emotionally," Bowen recalls, adding, "We have all seen how devastating illness can destroy the financial security of a family...
Last week, in the Public Health Service's annual report on smoking, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that so-called involuntary smoking -- simply breathing in the vicinity of people with lighted cigarettes in enclosed areas -- can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy nonsmokers. Children of parents who smoke, the report stated, have more respiratory infections than children of nonsmokers. Infants of parents who smoke are hospitalized more often for bronchitis and pneumonia than babies in nonsmoking households. Furthermore, the Surgeon General warned that the risk of involuntary smoking may not be eliminated by separating nonsmokers from smokers...
...cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible for 2,400 lung cancer deaths annually...
...fact, no one knows exactly how smoking, passive or active, causes cancer; statistics merely show that it does. Koop compares the objection with ones made by the tobacco industry after the Surgeon General's landmark 1964 report that linked smoking to lung cancer. "The evidence is as strong against involuntary smoking as it was in 1964 against smoking itself," he says. "There is now a ground swell to move forward. If this evidence were available on another environmental pollutant, we would have acted long...
...know first? A preliminary sketch? On these low-slung mornings, your long-gone countrymen are attacked in their sleep by emphatic music played on clocks and radios that are yoked together. They run a mile or two to ward off heart disease, chomp high-fiber cereals to ward off cancer, and dress in the fashions of the times, which may seem starchy to you but in fact have never been looser. They proceed then to offices populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people...