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At 17, Tim Cislaw of Costa Mesa, Calif., seemed to have it all: suntanned good looks, natural athletic and artistic talent, and popularity. One night last March, while recovering from the flu, he took a few drags on a kretek, or clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves...
Schechter has since seen two other teen-agers with dangerously inflamed lungs apparently related to kreteks. Like Cislaw, one of the victims had been suffering from a virus at the time that he smoked the cigarettes. Both eventually recovered.
"Picture yourself in a place that's comfortable, very relaxing, perhaps on a beach with a golden sun," a hypnotic voice drones. "The temperature is comfortable and you're feeling good, strong, relaxed, at peace with yourself and the world. Now breathe in deeply and allow the oxygen to fill...
Because of its long history, phosgene's effects on humans are well known. Inhalation causes severe lung injury, but since the gas has no effect on the upper respiratory tract, victims have no immediate warning, other than a musty odor, that they have breathed in a poisonous gas. Choking...
In one, doctors varied the rate of the heartbeat, at one point lowering it to 30 beats per min. (75 is customary for Schroeder), leaving him weak and short of breath and looking exactly as he did before the implant. The other experiment was also uncomfortable: to measure his lungs...