Word: risked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Police then posted signs on the doors leading to the building, cautioning people to enter at their own risk. The signs were removed sometime in the evening...
...women are confused -- even panicked -- once more, this time by reports suggesting that the use of birth-control pills increases the risk of breast cancer. After newspaper and TV stories on the possible link appeared last week, doctors were besieged by calls from many of the 13.2 million American women who take the Pill. And no wonder: breast cancer is the third leading cause of death among U.S. women, killing 42,000 a year...
...Women who took the Pill for more than ten years tripled their risk of developing breast cancer...
Around the world, volunteers risk their lives to treat the suffering in areas devastated by wars and natural disasters. In the waiting room: more than 2 billion people...