Word: pepticity
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...burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, benzopyrene, hydrogen cyanide. Cigarette smoke has been related to increased rates of lung cancer, coronary heart disease, peptic ulcers and emphysema...
...Nixon team reports in the Lancet that of 59 patients treated, one died from perforation of a peptic ulcer. After their treatment, eight more died, but most of these had complicating diseases or injuries...
Nearly as many gas patients, about 20% of the total, produce either too much or too little gastric acid. Shortage of acid favors establishment of abnormal bacteria that ferment food in the intestines; this condition usually can be corrected by medicine containing dilute hydrochloric acid. Hyperacidity and peptic ulcer may lead to an excess production of carbon dioxide, and hence to flatulence, through the interaction of gastric acid on bicarbonates from the digestive juices. Standard ulcer medicines -antacids in liquid or tablet form-and diet should relieve this type of gaseousness...
...discrepancies often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200 cases of bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, the diagnosis was wrong 33% of the time, and 37 cases of bleeding peptic ulcer were missed. Among 85 cases of liver abscess, 53 were unsuspected until the autopsy...
...page follow-up to the 1964 Surgeon General's report. Based on a review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused...