Word: emphysema
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...cocaine or other illegal drugs that have aroused such concern. Nonsmokers -- more than two-thirds of the population -- subsidize cigarettes through increased Medicare and Medicaid payments to provide care for victims, as well as through stiffer private insurance premiums that reflect smokers' high rates of heart disease, cancer and emphysema. The congressional Office of Technology Assessment estimates that the health and lost-productivity costs of smoking total $65 billion a year...
...Nabisco and Philip Morris both vehemently contend that there is no proven link between smoking and diseases such as lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease. Then why do their advertising campaigns so often rely on giving the product away so people will try it? The most shameless example of such desperation advertising came when RJR-Nabisco sponsored rock concerts with famous entertainers and charged five empty cigarette packages for admission. This is reminiscent of the drug pusher who gives out samples to hook people; addicts have to supply their habits, after...
Leaning on the arms of his captors and clasping a towel to his face to protect his emphysema-weakened lungs against the cold, the frail prisoner hardly looked like a man capable of murder. But as he stepped off a train in Paoli, Pa., last week, William Henry Redmond, 66, was walking back through time to face charges in the April 1951 death of Jane Marie Althoff, an eight-year-old ) who had been strangled near a carnival outside Trainer...
When Bruce Nickell, 52, a state maintenance worker in Auburn, Wash., collapsed and died in June 1986, doctors attributed his death to emphysema. Five days later Susan Snow, another Auburn resident, died after swallowing an Extra- Strength Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...
HOSPITALIZED. John Huston, 81, Oscar-winning actor-director whose credits include The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen; for bronchopneumonia and emphysema; in Fall River, Mass...