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...plaintiffs were a grim collection of the walking wounded. Mary Farnan, who has been smoking since age 11, has lung cancer that has spread to her brain. Frank Amodeo's throat cancer forces him to eat through a hole in his stomach. Loren Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, has had part of his tongue cut out and his jaw replaced twice. Not the kind of opponents you'd want to challenge in front of a jury...
RECOVERING. STEPHEN KING, 51, horror novelist; from injuries sustained after he was hit by a van near his Lovell, Me., summer home; at a hospital in Lewiston. King underwent surgeries for leg and hip fractures and a collapsed lung...
...there are plenty of cigar magazines, cigar dinners and cigar charity auctions to remind you. What they don't emphasize--but what doctors have known for a while--is that smoking cigars on a regular basis significantly increases your risk of developing emphysema as well as cancers of the lung, lip, throat and esophagus. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine added to that grim list, reporting that cigar smoking also boosts your risk of heart disease...
...found, after adjusting for age and other risk factors, was a direct link between how much the men smoked and how sick they got. Patients who smoked fewer than five cigars a day had a 34% greater risk of throat and oral cancers and a 57% greater risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers. Men who smoked five or more cigars a day had a 620% greater risk of throat and oral cancers and a 220% greater risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers. If they also drank more than three alcoholic drinks a day, their cancer risk shot up even higher...
Sources--Good News: Journal of the American Medical Association (4/27/99); Fertility and Sterility (5/99) Bad News: American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society meeting; Journal of the American Medical Association (4/27/99...