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...will die of cancer in the U.S. this year, and the report charges smoking will lead to 129,000 of those deaths. Tobacco, Koop said at a press conference, "is responsible for some 340,000 deaths in this country annually," not only from cancer but from heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, and other ailments. Previous reports have blamed smoking by pregnant women for miscarriages, premature births and birth defects. Discussing the effects of smoking, Koop said: "This can only presage human tragedy in the years ahead and enormous economic loss to our country." He noted that smoking exacts...
This year's report, like its 14 predecessors, is essentially a review of existing data. But it is the first to focus exclusively on the relationship of smoking to cancer. The 1964 report concluded that cigarette smoking was the primary cause of lung cancer in men and probably in women. Today smoking is considered a major cause not only of lung cancer but of cancer of the larynx, oral cavity and esophagus, and a contributing factor in the development of malignancy in the bladder, pancreas and kidney. The report also notes an association between smoking and cancer...
Owen Thomas appeared dead on arrival at the New York Infirmary last December. His heart, liver, intestines and a lung had been slashed in a knife fight. The 20-year-old fish-market laborer had no pulse, no blood pressure and no breath left in a body that was already "very cold to touch," according to Dr. Daryl Isaacs, who was in charge of the emergency room. Yet five minutes later, Thomas' heartbeat was restored, a recovery that Isaacs described as "the most wondrous thing we've ever experienced...
...Takuye Green, 54, was facing a coronary bypass operation at Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee. Her husband Hoyle remembers being reassured when they were told that a top visiting Air Force officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years...
...made him TIME'S Man of the Year for 1980, Ronald Reagan launched a conservative counterrevolution, changing the direction of American government more drastically than any other President in half a century. Not even the bullet from a would-be assassin's gun that pierced his left lung on March 30 could slow his initial momentum...