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...Tobacco claims 390,000 lives a year, 90,000 more than earlier estimates. Two-thirds of those deaths result from cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and chronic respiratory ailments like emphysema. The average male smoker is 22 times as likely to die from lung cancer as is a nonsmoker, double the previous risk estimate...
...CIGAR. Fidel Castro gave up his trademark Havanas in 1985, but only now has the reason been disclosed: according to Soviet officials, doctors discovered a small malignancy in a lung. Castro, 62, is under regular treatment that has slowed but not checked the course of the cancer. His public appearances have become less frequent, and he seems to have lost weight. Soviet leader Mikhail ! Gorbachev, who canceled a trip to Cuba last month after Armenia's earthquake, wants to reschedule as soon as possible, perhaps as early as this month. High on Gorbachev's Havana agenda: a discussion of possible...
...counter this confusion, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has for the past three years been running a National Cholesterol Education Program. Last year the program set 200 mg/dl as the amount of total cholesterol (essentially LDL plus HDL) above which individuals are considered to be potentially at risk of developing heart disease; those between 200 and 239 are borderline high risk; anyone with a count of 240 or more may be at high risk. The program suggested that everybody should aim for an LDL count of 130 or lower. However, it did not recommend specific HDL targets...
Cholesterol. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute suggests that Americans limit themselves to 300 mg ( 1/100 oz.) of cholesterol a day. Cholesterol is found only in animal products, sometimes to a high degree: one egg yolk has 272 mg, and 3 oz. of beef liver has 331 mg. Saltwater fish, on the other hand, are extremely low in cholesterol and also contain omega-3 fatty acids, which may lower LDL levels. Not all seafood is as highly recommended: shrimp and crab, for example, have twice as much cholesterol as fish. Grundy's major candidates for removal from the diet...
When the Manville company entered bankruptcy in 1982, it was facing one of the worst product-liability disasters in history. Some 16,500 personal-injury lawsuits had been filed by industrial workers who claimed that they had developed lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases as a result of inhaling Manville-produced asbestos fibers. More than 50,000 other alleged victims were preparing to sue. Juries had already given damage awards of $1 million to several individuals, so the company's potential liability was overwhelming. Even if the company were liquidated, the anticipated claims could not be paid...