Actor Steve McQueen, Beloved Husband of Barbara McQueen, Honored Posthumously with the Warren Zevon “Keep Me in Your Heart” Memorial Tribute Award
January 13th, 2012. The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) today announced that it is honoring Steve McQueen with the Warren Zevon "Keep Me in Your Heart" Memorial Tribute Award. McQueen, a global cinema legend in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away in 1980 from the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. The Warren Zevon ... [More >>]
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Annual Asbestos Awareness Day Grows into a Global Asbestos Awareness Week March 28th, 2011. For more than a hundred years, knowledge of asbestos' risks has been well documented. However, despite the seemingly widespread understanding that asbestos exposure kills, it was only seven years ago, ... [More >>] | Smoking and Lung Cancer Not the End of the Story: Asbestos and Smoking Create an Incredibly Deadly Combination March 22nd, 2011. Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide, resulting in 1.4 million deaths annually1. In the US, more than 150,000 deaths resulted from lung cancer in 20102. Although ... [More >>] |
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