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...Offering the strongest evidence to date, a study of half a million people in 116 cities shows that long-term exposure to tiny soot particles from coal-burning power plants and diesel engines raises the risk of lung cancer some 20%--comparable to the effect of living with a smoker. What can you do? Try air filters--or get out of town...
...romance with royal aide Peter Townsend made newspaper headlines around the world because he was divorced, and after two years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide; in Captiva, Florida. Fadiman reported on World War II for TIME...
...program kicks off with the world premiere of Rick Winterson’s Two Ex-Smokers. Like the other two plays of the evening, it features only two characters—in this case, nameless ex-smokers played by John Pattavina and Georgia Rushing. As the two banter about the pros and cons of quitting smoking, Rushing’s ex-smoker periodically delivers monologues revealing that quitting may be neither as easy nor as rewarding as the two ex-smokers outwardly claim...
...Paris, have probably been included in this collection simply because, for the purposes of description, they might as well have been taken in America) depict the moral bankruptcy and decadence of the 1930's in terms of space and the objects that occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting...
...word suggests cardigan sweaters," says David Sedaris. The word is humorist. He doesn't like it. It's not as bad as funnyman, but it's close. "The humor section," he whines into the phone, speaking long distance from Paris, where he has been living because he's a smoker and so are most Parisians, "is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons...