Word: lungfuls
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...into a Land Rover and turned him over to his superiors in Segamat. There, incredulous officials questioned the prisoner for hours on end, laid every kind of verbal trap to see if he really was the man he claimed to be. Sure enough, he was none other than Hor Lung, the leading Communist terrorist in South Malaya, and the last man the government thought would ever surrender...
...ranks of public officials on record against the dangers of heavy cigarette smoking won a noted recruit in New York's Health Commissioner Herman E. Hilleboe. Granting there is no proof that smoking is the only cause of lung cancer, Dr. Hilleboe declared that several recent studies "give irrefutable evidence that the long-range effects of cigarette smoking are harmful for many people...
...country style, he was broke all the time. In 1950 he became a janitor at Iowa State College for $1.10 an hour. He made a comeback on the European jazz circuit, but last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang again...
...size filter brand yielded 14.4% to 38.7% less tars than the four other bestselling Canadian filters. Furthermore, "an increasing section of scientific opinion believes that if the tar intake from a single cigarette were reduced to 18 milligrams,† there would be a significant reduction in the risk of lung cancer...
...tobacco men were burned up. Huffed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee: "The position of this country's cigarette industry is unchanged. Scientific evidence simply does not support the theory that there is anything in cigarette smoke known to cause human lung cancer." Added one insider: "O'Neil-Dunne is like the kid in the gang who punks...