Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edwin Green was a Florida construction executive who smoked one or two packs of Lucky Strikes daily for most of his adult life and died in 1958, at the age of 49, of lung cancer. His widow and son sued for $1,500,000 damages from the American Tobacco Co., maker of Luckies. Last week, after the claim had been struck down by a district court and a federal appeals court, the Florida Supreme Court handed down an "advisory opinion" that both the manufacturer and the distributor of cigarettes can indeed be held liable for damages...
...ruling. In similar damage cases elsewhere, the courts have been trending against the cigarette companies. At first, courts from Massachusetts to Louisiana threw out the damage claims; then last November a federal district court jury in Pittsburgh found that Chesterfields (Liggett & Myers) had been "one of the causes" of lung cancer in a suing carpenter, but absolved the company on grounds that the smoker had knowingly assumed the risk. The Florida court went much far ther, ruling that American Tobacco's very act of marketing and advertising contained an "implied warranty" that cigarettes are safe...
...Died. Dr. Harold Fred Dorn, 56, statistician of the U.S. National Institutes of Health whose 1958 study of 198,926 service veterans showed an increase among smokers in the number of deaths due to lung cancer (six times as many deaths for all smokers, nine times as many for cigarette smokers), and led to the U.S. Public Health Service's acknowledgement in 1959 that cigarettes were a cause of cancer; of cancer of the kidney; in Bethesda...
...Tortoni and turn back to his books. A love-struck lad from her typing class enjoys her in a muddy construction shack. A rich lawyer picks her up with his big car one night and performs titillating lathery rites with her in his fancy bathroom. Her mother dies of lung cancer. Her father, who spends his time designing unsalably ornate bird cages, loses their apartment, and Enrica has an abortion...
...lung or a heart would be technically more difficult