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JUDGMENT AWARDED. To RICHARD BOEKEN, 56, steadfast two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker for 40 years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...
...hoisted into the ovens. Women who have been employed to mourn for the deceased?a common practice in Taiwan?do so halfheartedly, whimpering rather than weeping. The funeral cloth is ragged, flowers are wilted, the hearses old and decrepit. "The level of service here is disgraceful," says Deng Wen-lung, a university lecturer in life and death studies who has accompanied a visitor to the scene. "Taiwanese have to be taught they can demand something better...
...Boeken, 56, has smoked two packs of Marlboro cigarettes every day for the last 43 years, despite repeated attempts to quit. He now has lung cancer, which has spread to his brain, back and lymph nodes; doctors give him less than a year to live. Who?s responsible for this sad state of affairs? According to a Los Angeles jury, his impending death can be blamed directly on Philip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes. The reason? Boeken says he believed the company's long-standing insistence that cigarettes are not addictive. And while juries had long been skeptical...
...thousands of fen/ phen users started showing up in doctor's offices and hospitals with catastrophic heart and lung problems. One of them was an athletic but overweight Boston- area bride-to-be, Mary Linnen, 29. Hoping to look a little more svelte in her wedding dress, Linnen had been taking the pills for only 23 days before she developed a fatal lung condition, primary pulmonary hypertension, that effectively suffocated her within the year. Many other pill takers turned up with plaque-riddled heart valves requiring open-heart surgery...
...taking drugs to lower your cholesterol? For millions of Americans who never dreamed they had a heart condition, the answer to that question changed abruptly last week. Impressed by mounting evidence that aggressive treatment can significantly reduce death from heart disease, a panel of experts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued new guidelines for treating high cholesterol. In one stroke, the panel nearly tripled--from 13 million to 36 million--the number of adults who should be taking daily doses of powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs. They also raised by 25%--from 52 million to 65 million...