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...scientists agree that airborne asbestos can be deadly. It is a proven cause of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer of the membranes surrounding internal organs. It also causes asbestosis, a choking stiffening of the lungs, and it has been linked to lung cancer. Yet nearly all cases of asbestos- related disease have been confined to people who mined the mineral or those who worked with it in manufacturing or installation jobs. As for the general public, says Mossman, the level of exposure even in buildings with flaking asbestos is no more than 1% of the level deemed safe for workers...
...Reynolds, Uptown is simply a product designed to appeal to a particular market segment. To critics, it represents the cold-blooded targeting of blacks, who suffer a lung-cancer rate 58% higher than whites. Uptown's opponents won powerful support last week when Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, blasted the cigarette-marketing plan. Said he: "Uptown's message is more disease, more suffering and more death for a group already bearing more than its share of smoking-related illness and mortality." R.J. Reynolds, for its part, denounced the "unfair and biased attention" that had been focused...
...Motoshima in response to a question in the city assembly, "and I believe the Emperor had responsibility for the war." Last week the 67-year-old mayor paid for that statement, very nearly with his life. As Motoshima stepped out of city hall, a gunman shot him in the lung from behind. At week's end the mayor was in stable condition...
...even deeper real-life influence on Beckett's work, scholars have suggested, came in 1938. As Beckett walked along a Paris street, a panhandler stabbed him in the chest, perforating a lung and narrowly missing his heart. When Beckett later asked why the attack happened, the assailant replied, "I don't know, sir." That glimpse of the random perils of existence may have confirmed Beckett's dark vision but did not initiate it. His novel Murphy, published the same year, depicts a destitute Irishman, living in London, who daydreams away his days in a rocking chair until a gas plant...
Life in the shacks is much more healthy than in the coal mines, these strikers are quick to point out. In the mines, sickness is almost inevitable. One striker noted a study which shows that workers who wear masks may reduce their chances of contracting lung diseases, but they also increase the likelihood of suffering from heart ailments...