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...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...
...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...
There is a box in Heartbreaking Work too, one that is neither amusing nor artsy. This box contains the ashes of Eggers' mother, who died of stomach cancer when he was 21--five weeks after his father died of lung cancer. Eggers thus became the guardian of his eight-year-old brother Toph (short for Christopher) and moved from suburban Chicago to California. It's a hilarious book, despite the subject, that applies McSweeney's textual slyness full-force. The acknowledgments contain a guide to themes and symbols (and a chart of his advance and expenses), and his subjects frequently...
...After choosing which form of cancer (currently breast, lung, colon, or prostate) to evaluate, users submit a brief survey on diet, medical and family history. The Web site then returns an estimate of risk relative to others of the same age and gender...
...treatment. Apparently, a few patients died when they developed bacterial infections--a common complication of flu--and were treated solely with antiviral medications, which don't work against bacterial infections and were never meant to. Only antibiotics can tame bacterial infection. In addition, some people with asthma and other lung problems saw their condition worsen while on Relenza, a known side effect that GlaxoWellcome properly flags in its package insert...