MetaFilter posts tagged with emphysema

Crack Lung

Artw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:47:24 -0800

Amy Winehouse has Emphysema. The 24 year old artist, whose career has netted multiple awards but has often been overshadowed by her drug use, now faces a lung condition that can be slowed but never reversed, with effects ranging from shortness of breath to cyanosis and heart faliure.

Warnings

tellurian — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:21:52 -0800

The Australian cigarette health warnings have pretty much filtered down to every retail packet that's bought now. They're pretty gruesome and some smoking acquaintances cover them up with stickers. I thought I'd have a look around and see what other countries warnings were like. None of them were pulling any punches except for Uruguay.

Mind if I fart?

Eekacat — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:29:08 -0800

Physicians and scientists around the world even go as far as to state that smoking leads to premature death. Don’t we all know someone who smokes constantly, even heavily, yet is still living — or has lived — to the mature age of eighty, ninety, and older? Furthermore, the MDs and PhDs state that smoking causes cancer and emphysema. If this diagnosis were definitive, wouldn’t these afflictions affect all smokers equally, rather than the small percentage that it actually does affect?

Lynsey — Sat, 02 Dec 2000 19:37:02 -0800

Christy Turlington has early-stage emphysema Another good reason not to smoke cigarettes. Discussion?