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...American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago last week, when the doctors got around to discussing medicine instead of medicare, topic A was the danger of smoking. Physicians already familiar with tobacco's implication in the growing incidence of lung cancer were startled to hear that they had been worrying about one of the least of tobacco-caused troubles. Lung cancer brought on by cigarette smoking, reported the American Cancer Society's chief research statistician. Dr. Edward Cuyler Hammond, is "relatively unimportant'' compared with the damage tobacco does in a variety of other ways...
Focusing popular attention on the 30,000 deaths from lung cancer each year, said Dr. Hammond, has obscured the more deadly fact that four times as many "excess'' fatalities among cigarette addicts are due to a long and tangled chain of events. Between puffs on his pipe, he reported that deeply inhaled cigarette smoke sends a threat of pre mature death spreading through the lungs, arteries and the heart itself...
...Word. The accident did far more to Carpenter than break his left leg and collapse a lung; it changed his life. Lying in a hospital bed for two weeks, Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work for his degree and took...
...Pathologist Jachimczyk's study showed that 1) Marshall had been hit on the head with sufficient force to knock him out; 2) there were bruises on his face; 3) he could hardly have shot himself five times, since one bullet pierced his aorta, one a lung, another the liver-any of which would have caused quick death...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...