Word: emphysema
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Since then his repertoire has expanded. He played Dodge, a 75-year-old alcoholic dying of emphysema in Sam Shepard's Buried Child, a French nobleman in Moliere's School for Wives, Trinculo in The Tempest and a tough detective in Shepard's Suicide in B Flat...
Despite a pending lawsuit by the Beverly Hills Restaurant Association, it is unlikely the law will be repealed. "Posterity may find that this ban was well ahead of its time," says Patrick Reynolds, an antismoking activist and Beverly Hills resident who saw his father die of emphysema. He is the grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the famed tobacco company...
...closed-circuit television monitor and rumbling orders into a microphone. The jauntiness of his warm-up suit is belied by the clear plastic tube that runs from his nose, behind his ears, down his chest and along his leg to an oxygen tank, a last-ditch defense against the emphysema that has plagued him for decades...
...group of kids who are down on their luck but gotta lot of heart, and best of all, the cynical, street-wise, cliche-spouting Bogart-clone, Buck Holden, who smokes a cigarette like it's part of his lip. Imagine--in those days they didn't even know about emphysema...
Crack's immediate effects are readily observable: chronic sore throats and hoarseness are common. Crack can leave a user gasping for breath and vulnerable to emphysema. But these complaints pale in comparison with the even more dangerous changes that crack triggers in the body. Crack, says Masi, "throws the entire cardiovascular system into turmoil. Your blood vessels rapidly constrict. You're a key candidate for respiratory failure." Dramatically increased blood pressure and heart rate can lead to coronary attacks, and the intense stimulation of the brain may trigger convulsions...