Word: lungful
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DIED. JIM VARNEY, 50, rubber-faced comic who made hundreds of commercials and nine movies as the dimwitted Ernest P. Worrell, a cult figure in the 1980s famous for the catchphrase "KnowhutImean?"; of lung cancer; in White House, Tenn...
...After struggling with lung cancer for two years, Jim Varney, the actor known for his "Ernest goes to" roles, has been dead...
...luxurious, somehow more healthful cousins of the cigarette. It's a perception that is quickly changing. A Centers for Disease Control study published in this week's journal of the National Cancer Institute found cigar smokers to be five times more likely than nonsmokers to die from lung cancer. Those who inhale their stogies are nearly eight times more likely to succumb to lung cancer than nonsmokers, while non-inhalers are three times as likely. The reason for the death rate among non-inhalers may come down to secondhand smoke - mostly from their own cigars...
...sucking on a Havana at a ritzy martini bar. Also alarming, say the researchers, is the increasing use of smaller cigars, sometimes known as cigarillos. The lower pH levels in these cigars, say the report's authors, make users more likely to inhale them, thus increasing the chance of lung cancer...
...Nixon. But at times, when Gore descends to the politics he disdains, he can't find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys of growing tobacco. Plus there was his continued acceptance of campaign contributions from Big Tobacco...