Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Government regulators, forced to pay through Medicaid for the treatment of myriad cases of emphysema and lung cancer, have launched their own assault against tobacco companies. Yet they have been unable to win in a court of law, despite revelations of the addictive properties of nicotine. Tobacco companies have never paid a cent for health problems incurred by smoking. Fortunately, now that the Liggett agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent...
...Another downside to being outsized. Obesity for women may be the leading risk factor for developing BLOOD CLOTS in the lungs. In a major study, overweight women had triple the normal risk of lung clots...
When this frail old man finally succumbed to the Parkinson's disease and lung ailments that had sparked rumors of his demise for years, most Chinese registered barely a sigh. Black-clad television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer...
...would declare the conference a success," said Hawaii Club co-President Richard I. Lung '97. "The panel I attended on the loss of local culture through the media was very interesting...
...maybe it was eight people in my room," Lung said...