Word: lungfuls
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...other peacetime locale are the metaphors and ironies so impossibly juicy, so ripe for the plucking. And there are always new crops of redolent, suggestive Vegas facts, of which any several -- for instance: the Mirage has a $500-a-pull slot-machine salon; the lung-cancer death rate here is the second highest in the country; the suicide rate and cellular-phone usage are the highest -- constitute a vivid, up-to-date sketch of the place...
...Diets high in fat not only promote heart disease, they also, surprisingly, raise the risk of lung cancer. A study of non-smoking women found that those who got 15% or more of their calories from saturated fats were six times more likely to develop lung cancer than those for whom fat made up 10% or less of their diet...
...street-smart liberal columnist Pete Hamill asserts that homelessness is a public-health problem spawned by "drunks, crackheads or crazies," not a housing problem. "In a health crisis," Hamill contends, "the rights of the community must take precedence over the rights of an individual: your freedom ends at my lung." (Hamill did not mention in the story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal: quarantine male street people...
...scan, EKG, DNA analysis, heart transplants, lung transplants, heart-lung transplants. The list of medical miracles stretches longer each month...
...while admitting that some pollutants are indeed present and dangerous, officials protest that there are limits to what they can do. Radon may cause 200 fatal lung and rectal cancers a year. Yet the Association of California Water Agencies estimates that to eliminate it completely from water in that state alone would cost $3.7 billion. Is that a reasonable investment for preventing perhaps a score of deaths? Is $711 million per case of cancer too much to pay for the elimination of pentachlorophenol, a fungicide used in the lumber industry, or $80 billion per case too much...