111.   A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel approved only part of its application to sell its light therapy drug Photofrin, used to treat early stages of lung cancer.

112.   A scientific journal published a study claiming a direct link exists between smoking and lung cancer.

113.   A wave of Joe DiMaggio obituaries had been prepared months ago, after his surgery for lung cancer, when he rallied from one crisis after another.

114.   A suspicious shadow on an X-ray taken just a few months later turned out to be lung cancer.

115.   A woman who declined to give her name told the Globe that she had called the hotline on behalf of her mother-in-law who has lung cancer.

116.   A year later he was dead of lung cancer, still smoking up to the end.

117.   A week later, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and began radiation treatment, which was soon supplemented by chemotherapy.

118.   A year later, his wife, Jan, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

119.   About six years later, his father died at home from lung cancer.

120.   According to the American Lung Association, people who smoke at least three cigars a day are more than twice as likely to die of lung cancer than nonsmokers.