Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids, not surprisingly, have been among the most enthusiastic. "I like the music channels, the Disney Channel, HBO and Cinemax," says 11-year-old Brynn Dziewiatowski. "I watch twice as much TV as I did before." Isabelle Moren, 74, who is homebound because of emphysema, is just as big a fan, particularly of the Discovery Channel: "I like all that scenery, and it's educational." Town councilman Ed Hotaling, 42, who runs a florist shop, thinks the new TV offerings are "just great. At least it's something to see from the outside world. I used...
...because he wears a costume to conceal his identity. Tripping from one faux paux to the next and yet utterly naive about it, Steadman is the stereotypical nerd, but more abrasive, more annoying and goonier. He's a nerd's wet dream. Firestone sounds like Pee-Wee Herman with emphysema...
...Harvard and made a dazzling debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Bernstein's life followed the trajectory of a cautionary tale with the lesson, whom the gods would destroy they first give too many talents...
...reforms soon followed. In 1966 cigarette makers were forced to put labels on their packages warning consumers about the health risks of smoking. In 1971 cigarette ads were barred from TV and radio. The medical evidence against smoking, meanwhile, continued to mount; cigarettes were linked to heart disease, emphysema and low-birth- weight babies. In 1986, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released one of the first widely publicized reports on the detrimental effects of passive smoke, the issue shifted from personal health (what smokers are doing to themselves) to environmental damage (what they are doing to others...
...their product to cancer and other health problems was inconclusive. Today Thomas Lauria, assistant to the president of the Tobacco Institute, opens his defense of smoking this way: "I think that since the '60s, studies have shown that cigarette smoking has been linked as an important risk factor for emphysema, heart disease, lung cancer and other serious problems...