Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim of cystic fibrosis, almost invariably a child because the disease is usually fatal before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
...University Health Services yesterday issued a report warning that heavy cigarette smoking can result in lung cancer and other serious diseases...
...Health Services report quotes a report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which says that "the only benefits of smoking are psychological and social; it is a cause of lung cancer and bronchitis." It goes on to say that the relative risk of developing lung cancer is five tmies as great for cigarette smokers as non-smokers...
...condition don't smoke - they can't afford to." Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved it to be the major cause of lung cancer." Other anti-cigarette athletes: Track Stars Jim Beatty and Tom Courtney, Tank Stars Buster Crabbe and Patricia McCormick, Fighters Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Floyd Patterson...
...Europe the anti-tobacco campaign is far less circumspect. The British Ministry of Health has put up more than a million posters. One says: "Why be another sheep? Before you smoke, THINK. Cigarettes cause lung cancer." Another shows a half-open coffin, with the legend: "The big Flip-Top Box for the Smoker." In Italy, all tobacco advertising was made illegal...