Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...University of California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies" newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The entertainment industry is in denial...
...Given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt? What's more, some of the animals cloned so far have been plagued by fatal heart and lung defects in infancy...
DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author whose streetwise chronicle of growing up poor in Harlem, Manchild in the Promised Land, became a provocative civil rights-era best seller; of lung disease; in New York City. With its profanity and vivid descriptions of a childhood among pimps, drugs and gangs, Brown's 1965 book impressed critics and sold 4 million copies...
...bore before I had kids. Now if my child so much as clears her throat, it's straight to the Cystic Fibrosis section of the "Mother's Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax...
...Serbia or stay and defend ourselves," he says. "We decided to stay. We know the Albanians. They are prone to terrorism. We have to protect ourselves." Down the corridor, in an office that boasts one of the biggest security details in the city, hospital director Milan Ivanovic, a lung specialist who is also one of the city's most prominent hard-liners, vowed that Mitrovica's Serbs would give no ground. "The only solution is ethnic separation," he says. "Albanians have only one goal: to expand their state by fascist means...