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...considered quake-resistant. Surprisingly, only three persons were killed: an ambulance driver and two respiratory patients, who were not seriously injured but died because they were separated from their breathing equipment. At the nearby Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando, by contrast, a patient survived only because his iron lung protected him from being crushed by a fallen ceiling...
Sulfur Tax. The President also took aim at sulfur oxides, which he said are "among the most damaging air pollutants" and are "linked to increased incidence of diseases such as bronchitis and lung cancer." Nixon proposes a tax on coal-smoke emissions (main source: power plants), both to curb them and to fund research for developing cleaner fuels. It is doubtful that Congress will approve. Last year the House Ways and Means Committee squashed a similar tax on leaded gasoline, a measure that Nixon now seeks again...
Since 1964, various Government reports have linked cigarette smoking to lung cancer, emphysema and other respiratory ailments. Last week U.S. Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld fired yet another salvo: a 488-page report to Congress showing, among other things, that smokers who rely on pipes and cigars are not as safe as they imagine. According to the report, which details hundreds of studies on millions of smokers and nonsmokers, cigarette smokers are at least 20 times as likely to die of lung cancer as nonsmokers, and six to ten times as likely to die of cancer of the larynx. They...
Because pipe and cigar smokers rarely inhale deeply, says the new report, they are only slightly more susceptible to lung cancer than nonsmokers. But pipe smokers can develop cancer of the mouth or lip. Many pipe puffers and cigar chompers do draw smoke down as far as the larynx. As a result, their chances of developing cancer of the throat are three to seven times greater than those of people who avoid smoking of any kind...
...forester, he aimed to enjoy the outdoors even more than he had as a state employee. But as Jacobson, an advanced skier, whooshed down a slope at Sierra Ski Ranch, he lost control, hit a tree and broke his left elbow, shoulder blade and four ribs, which punctured a lung. Now incapacitated for at least two months, he has become an unhappy statistic-one of this year's roughly 100,000 injured U.S. skiers, more than a third of them with broken arms or legs...