Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After about age 20 to 25, one starts losing lung function irreversibly at a rate of 1 percent per year in a nonsmoker," Dockery said. "If you have things that accelerate loss, this puts you at greater risk of developing emphysema and other pulmonary diseases...
Suffering from Alpha1, a genetic form of emphysema, Pierce received a double-lung transplant in 1993. After intense rehabilitation, she now competes in bicycling events around the world. Last year she started Team Alpha 1, whose members participate in American Lung Association rides across the country to raise awareness of the disease. "This is a tool for patients to live as full a life as they can," Pierce says. "The body can work again...
...aleck daughter is right. Why did Dole dig in so hard on the losing side of the smoking debate? He went through hell to quit the habit, and he used to get into fights with his first wife about her chain-smoking. He even lost his own brother to emphysema--so why play Mr. Tobacco on Today? As the minutes passed and Couric kept at him, he became angrier, knocking the "liberal elite that always buys the Democratic line," accusing Couric of "maybe violating the FEC regulations by always sticking up for the Democrats." Elizabeth Dole swallowed hard. She knew...
...quick stick of nicotine for dessert. They dash from their seats at the football stadium to the rest-room, missing the play of the day for the puff of the moment. Shivering in shirtsleeves outside their office complexes, they increase the risk that they will succumb not to emphysema but to chilblains...
...Eddie Ellis, and why has he been writing this humongous saga? A onetime newspaper and wire-service reporter, Ellis, 84, has lived for the past 28 years in a book-crammed (15,000 volumes) walk-up apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Slowed by age and emphysema, he rarely ventures from home but is still full of vim and spunk; he spends an hour or more each day adding to the diaries, typing on an old Hermes manual...