Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward making the air we breathe cleaner and healthier, but it didn't go far enough. Despite the tons of lead, sulfur dioxide and other combustion products filtered from the atmosphere, millions of Americans suffer from pollution-related breathing disorders, including asthma and bronchitis. In 1993 the American Lung Association sued the Environmental Protection Agency to make it re-evaluate its standards for particulates--very fine dust particles (about one twenty-fifth the diameter of a human hair)--after studies showed that they can lodge deep in the lungs and may contribute to tens of thousands of premature deaths...
DIED. ROBERT GINGRICH, 71, adoptive father of Newt Gingrich; hours before his son was renominated as House Speaker; of lung cancer; in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
...single most important factor in the new cancer statistics--both good and bad--was smoking. Cigarette consumption has dropped sharply in the past 30 years--from 4,194 per capita annually in 1964 to 2,515 today--and the effects of that drop are finally starting to show up. Lung cancers still account for 30% of all cancer deaths, but in those demographic groups that cut back sharply--male Caucasians, for example--lung-cancer death rates have dropped impressively (6.7%). Conversely, a lot of women took up smoking over the same period, which may account for the rise in lung...
...lung cancer, heart disease and wrinkled skin were not enough, research finds that SMOKERS may also have double the risk of losing their teeth...
ALREADY OUT: Representatives Mel Reynolds and Walter Tucker and Senator Bob Packwood quit because of scandal. Representative Kweisi Mfume took over the NAACP. Representative Norman Mineta took a job at Lockheed. Representative Bill Emerson died of lung cancer...