Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Prices of tobacco shares tumbled Friday as investors reacted to a report of new scientific evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. The study, published in the journal Science strongly linked cigarettes to lung cancer and may force the tobacco industry to rethink its argument that no clear connection has been established between smoking and the disease. The research found a tobacco carcinogen called BPDE bonds to three molecular sites on a gene crucial to the development of cancer. The gene, known as P53, monitors DNA copying during cell division and destroys cells with defective copies of genetic material. When...
DIED. RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD, 72; Secret Service agent who threw himself over Lyndon Johnson for protection when President Kennedy was assassinated; of lung cancer; in Savannah, Georgia...
Hummel went the extra mile--400 of them, in fact--for Sandra and Emerito Hernandez, who were driving to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek treatment for their daughter Desiree, 6, who needs a heart and lung transplant. When their minivan's broken alternator couldn't be fixed in time for their appointment--and they couldn't afford to rent a car--Hummel drove them to Cleveland himself. "Good people are scarce," says Sandra. "He's Superman...
...study, published in the September 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, followed 5,000 boys and 4,900 girls between 1974 and 1989. Researchers tracked the actual development of lung function among individuals including smokers and non-smokers...
...Lung function was determined annually using a spirometer, which measures the volume of air exhaled and the rate at which it is exhaled...