Word: lungfuls
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...have the highest rate of lung disease [inthe city] in South Boston," said South Bostonresident Richard Dayhill. "That's why I'm opposing[the plant...
This plant sparked protest in Boston's Mission Hill district over the past decade because its smoke was considered a health hazard. State estimates predict that four more people will die of lung cancer over the next 40 years because of nitrogen dioxide pollution belched from the plant...
...called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since 1975. Grain Belt workers face combines with sharp blades that sever fingers and limbs, foul-smelling air in hog-farrowing barns that can cause lung disease, and an array of possibly carcinogenic herbicides...
...corporate shares climb -- in the wake of two important court cases. In Boston, a federal appeals court ruled that the Surgeon General's warning labels on every package of U.S. cigarettes shielded Liggett & Myers, based in Durham, N.C., in a $3 million lawsuit filed by the heirs of a lung cancer victim. Just four days earlier in Atlanta, another appeals court had made a similar ruling in favor of American Brands of Old Greenwich, Conn., the maker of, among other things, Pall Mall cigarettes...
...Boston case concerned Joseph C. Palmer, of Newton, Mass., who smoked L& M cigarettes for 23 years. After he died of lung cancer in 1980 at age 64, Palmer's wife Ann and his mother jointly sued Liggett & Myers, charging that the company had failed to provide adequate warnings about the dangers of cigarette smoking. A U.S. district court judge ruled that the company could be held liable under Massachusetts state laws; that decision was overturned last week...