Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Lung Diseases. Smokers' death rate was almost twice as high as that of nonsmokers; almost four times as high for deaths from pneumonia and influenza...
Especially startling was the finding that, although the increased death rate from lung cancer was the most dramatic (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.), smoking may cause a far greater loss of life by speeding up the process of heart disease-where a relatively modest increase in the mortality rate means many more deaths because the disease is so much commoner...
...Lung Cancer. "A spectacular relationship." Among 32,392 men who had never smoked, only four died of microscopically proved cancer originating in the lung, but among 108,000 cigarette smokers there were 265 similarly proved cases (of 397 reported). Even men who smoked less than half a pack a day ran a risk of lung cancer 15 times as great as that of nonsmokers; between one and two packs 43 times as great; on two packs or more 64 times as great...
...kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
...into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...