Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CANCER. The U.S. has one of the world's highest incidences of cancers associated with environmental pollution. A recent National Cancer Institute study (TIME, Aug. 11) shows that the industrialized and highly air-polluted Northeast has a particularly high incidence of lung cancer, as do areas where copper and lead smelters are located. The highest rates of bladder and liver cancers are found in counties with plants producing rubber and chemicals, perfumes and cosmetics, soaps and printing ink. One Ohio community, most of whose workers are employed by chemical plants, had a high rate for all three cancers...
Though cigarette smoking is responsible for at least 80% of all lung cancers, asbestos fibers are also taking an increasing toll. It has long been known that workers exposed to high levels of airborne asbestos fibers developed more lung malignancies than people in other occupations. But doctors have recently suggested that others are also vulnerable: painters or homeowners sanding asbestos-based compounds used for covering rough areas on walls or ceilings; mechanics who work on asbestos-insulated brake linings...
...Russia, researchers have found that workers exposed to chloroprene (the base for several synthetic rubber products) have higher rates of skin and lung cancer than the rest of the population. Vinyl chloride, a colorless gas that is the basic ingredient of the widely used plastic poly vinyl chloride (PVC), has been identified as a cause of angiosarcoma of the liver. Until recently, this cancer was so rare that one Los Angeles hospital found only one case in 52,000 autopsies. Since last year, however, doctors have confirmed 19 cases of the cancer in the U.S. alone, 17 of them...
Mendelson said Yesterday he found "no adverse effects" from marijuana use aside from slight weight gain and a change in lung function similar to that produced by cigarettes...
...bladder (in women) by 26% each. Cancer of the uterus, which afflicts an estimated 61 of every 100,000 women a year, dropped 37% during this period; cancer of the stomach, which once affected 24 people per 100,000 every year, by 63%. The only increases: lung cancer (125%) and about 20% increases each in cancers of the prostate, bladder and colon in men, and the pancreas in both men and women. The rates for breast and colon cancer in women are virtually unchanged...