Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cigarette smoking in public places received a big boost last January when Epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama of Japan's National Cancer Center published the results of a 14-year study of 265,000 Japanese. He found that nonsmoking wives of heavy smokers had a higher risk of developing lung cancer than nonsmoking women married to men who did not smoke...
...often begins with wheezing and shortness of breath. Eventually it can lead to death. Byssinosis (nicknamed "brown lung" disease) is caused primarily by cotton dust that fills the air in textile plants. As many as 150,000 employed and retired cotton-mill workers may suffer from some form of the ailment. In the cotton-mill country of the South, a sardonic slogan addressed to consumers is "Blue jeans for you, brown lung...
...aggressively cultivated both academic and social contacts. As treasurer of the D.U. (one of Harvard's finals clubs), he made a connection that saved his father's life. Hamlin's normally powerful voice lowers to a reverent tone as he tells the story. "My dad had had his right lung removed because of cancer and six unsuccessful operations on his left lung. I was talking with [eardiologist] Dr. Powell at a D.U. club function, and he referred me to Dr. Herman Grillo, the leading bronchial tracheologist...
Gohlke, who is expected to be released from the hospital within the next two weeks, is doing well-walking and taking short trips outside the hospital in a wheelchair. On May 1 Reitz performed another heart-lung transplant, this one on a former undertaker, Charles Walker, 30, who had a congenital heart defect. He too is doing well...
Cigarette smoking is a top-ranking coronary culprit. It speeds up the heart rate, raises blood pressure and constricts blood vessels. Smokers in the U.S. are twice as likely as non-smokers to have heart attacks. And while tobacco users are most often warned about lung cancer, statistics show that their chances of developing fatal heart disease are three times as great. The American Heart Association estimates that more than 120,000 deaths from heart disease could be avoided each year in the U.S. if people gave up cigarettes...