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Models who don’t eat have to stay thin somehow. Smoking apparently is the compulsive way. I saw plenty of models smoking outside the Bryant Park tents in New York City during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Still Too Thin, and Getting Younger

For those of you who commute to work every day, you might want to rethink whether living in the country and working in the city is worth the price of your own life. All those cars on the road produce “ultra-fine particulate matter that has been linked with premature death, cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness, [...]

The Cancer Patients Aid Association hired a clever ad agency for an anti-smoking ad campaign. While we doubt it will make anyone stop smoking, it sure makes for a great visual.

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I was stunned to read that Hollywood actor Paul Gleason died of mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer that comes from exposure to asbestos. He worked construction in the 1950’s with his father before becoming an actor.
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Paul Gleason, who was in “Trading Places” and [...]

$6.7bn settlement for asbestos victims (Brisbane Courier Mail)
Building products maker Owens Corning has agreed to a $US5.2 billion ($6.7 billion) settlement of long-running claims for illnesses linked to asbestos, the company and a lawyer for plaintiffs said.
Owens Corning to pay 5.2 billion-dollar asbestos settlement (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Building products maker Owens Corning [...]

After reading the Journal of the American Medical Association article below, you have to wonder about the structure of the health care system in America. This may be the land of the free, but when it comes to health care, it’s the land of the gouge.
Corporations like McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts don’t give a [...]

Mesothelioma: Questions and Answers
Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer in which malignant (cancerous) cells are found in the mesothelium, a protective sac that covers most of the body’s internal organs. Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles.
1. What is the mesothelium?
The mesothelium is a membrane that covers [...]

Were you ever afraid of the big bad wolf? If you lived in the city, I doubt it. The notion of a wolf walking down the street probably seemed ridiculous…until you visited your local gas station for another pack of cigarettes. You see, the big bad wolf was cloaking himself in the guise of a [...]

The front line usually connotes the battlefield, the piece of ground where the momentum of war is lost or leads to conquest. In the movies, there’s also a heroic soldier who braves his or her life in order to save a buddy or perhaps a whole battalion. One well-tossed grenade just might do the trick [...]

Patents were designed to protect an invention for a limited time in exchange for divulging the know-how that makes it work. That’s a good thing, the reasoning goes, because it inspires people to risk their time and money in pursuit of the novel and the monetary rewards that go with it. But what if people’s [...]

The information age is yielding up all kinds of secrets. Researchers can now build massive databases of information and then perform endless relationship analysis on the numbers. Take smoking. Researchers got curious about whether ethnicity plays a role in the likelihood of a person getting lung cancer. Stunningly, it does.
Death may never take a [...]