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...evidence that filters reduce the risk of lung cancer is "indirect but meaningful," say Dr. Moore and colleagues...
...said, sung, marched, tootled and done, the overall winner of the world's biggest brass-band competition was not a brass band at all but an amateur symphony orchestra-the National Youth Orchestra of Israel, which barely beat out New Zealand's National Band.* The lung-weary winner of the marching band contest was the Dutch drum band, De Trommelaere van Roesendaele...
...Bella won by the simple tactic of outwaiting his enemies until they realized that public opinion was on his side. Holed up in the rugged Kabylia region, where they had promised to fight to "the last drop of blood." his two chief opponents, shrewd, sick (he has only one lung) Mohammed Boudiaf and clever, tough Belkacem Krim, finally saw the futility of their fight, agreed to negotiations with Ben Bella's top aide. Mohammed Khider. Boudiaf and Krim capitulated without even a face-saving compromise. They accepted intact Ben Bella's seven-man politburo, which included Boudiaf...
...central Asian heartland, around fabled Bokhara and Samarkand, cancer of the mouth is a common consequence of chewing nas-a mixture of tobacco, lime, ashes and cottonseed oil. But nas chewers have far less lung cancer than Soviet cigarette smokers (the government is working on an improved filter). Cancer of the esophagus is most frequent in parts of central Asia and Siberia, where a favorite beverage is scalding hot tea, sometimes dosed with pepper to give it an extra kick...
...careful not to suggest that smoking is a basic cause of either high blood pressure or coronary artery disease. But along with other A.M.A. panelists, they agreed that smoking almost certainly makes such conditions worse, and they agreed that the danger of serious illness or death from such infectious lung diseases as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis is increased if the lungs have been damaged by smoke...