Word: lungingly
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...most of all, Sayles pins down in dialogue and detail the special bond that exists between men who work too hard. When one miner comes home coughing and can't get his breath from the black lung, let alone sleep, his father-in-law tells, him, "Just a little miner's asthma. Had it all my life," advises him to sleep with an axe-handle under his arms, and rocks contentedly beneath the pictures that line his mantle--Jesus Christ, the Kennedy brothers, and John L. Lewis...
FACT: One ounce of plutonium is potentially equivalent to 200 million lung cancer doses. Four tons of plutonium are already missing in the U.S. alone...
...which are ecologically dangerous and some of which, such as strontium-90 and cesium-131, will be a disposal problem for 600 to 1000 years. The most deadly emission, of course, is plutonium. Its lethality is such that one-millionth of a gram is sufficient to cause lung cancer--and a large reactor annually produces 400 pounds. Once produced it must be stored safely for 250,000 to 500,000 years...
...victims, including ten of those who died, had been seriously ill with other ailments even before they were stricken by the mysterious fever. Three had received kidney transplants and were hospitalized on the same surgical floor. Another was a longtime alcoholic. Several had cancer. Still others had chronic lung disease. Their ages ranged from 16 to the late 60s, but they all apparently shared one characteristic: either because of illness or medication, their immune systems were so weakened that they were especially vulnerable to infections...
...intake of this additive in diet drinks has only occurred in relatively recent years. In man, a latent period measured sometimes in years and sometimes in decades is often observed between exposure to a carcinogen and clinical evidence of cancer. In the case of cigarette smoking, its relation to lung cancer was established only after decades of exposure by human populations...