Sentence examples for contracted lung from inspiring English sources

Several that were rescued by boat earlier in the week have contracted lung infections.

With Carl [Wilson], he'd been smoking since he was 13 or 14 and contracted lung cancer.

National Gypsum, revamped in a 1993 bankruptcy proceeding and now a unit of the closely held Delcor, previously formed a $400 million trust for claims by those who contracted lung cancer and other diseases from asbestos.

The jury decided that the three smokers -- Mary Farnan, 44, Frank Amodeo, 60, and Angie Della Vecchia, who died last year at 53 -- had contracted lung or throat cancer as a result of smoking.

This spring, in the second phase of the trial, the jury awarded nearly $13 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs who had contracted lung or throat cancer as a result of smoking.

Alan Landers, who started smoking at 9 and became a model for advertisements of Winston cigarettes and Tiparillo cigars, then contracted lung cancer and became a highly visible crusader against smoking, died Friday at his home in Lauderhill, Fla.

Then last May, her son, Konstantin, a 42-year-old engineer, died after contracting lung cancer, an ulcer and paralysis caused by drinking.

Her Lawyers argued that the negligence led to Michael Johnson Sr contracting lung cancer from smoking cigarettes after becoming "addicted" and failing to quit after many attempts to stop smoking.

Cancer doctors and others predicted that the study's results would soon lead to widespread use of CT scans, in particular for older smokers, who have a one in 10 chance of contracting lung cancer.

But a study in the BMJ in May contradicted earlier research and found that non-smokers whose spouse smoked did not in fact have a significantly higher chance of contracting lung cancer as a result.

Even after kicking the nicotine habit, ex-puffers face scary odds of contracting lung cancer.