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  Robert E. Lee - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In his last year of his life, an aged and weak Lee confided to friends that he felt like he could die any moment.
The stroke damaged the frontal lobes of the brain which made speech impossible, and causing abulia, a condition which impaired any thought process (which also explained his facial expression).
Lee was also not able to cough or expectorate, and this would prove a fatal problem.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /robert_e._lee.htm   (2086 words)

  
 Edison's 1914 Anti-Cigarette Letter, in High School Education 1894 Context
In 1914, that was a fact already then known for over three centuries!!
Smoker brain damage includes abulia (impaired will power, ethical controls, and impulse control) and acalculia (impaired arithmetical ability).
Educated people back then could still understand that off-the-job conduct such as smoking both set a bad moral example and led to adverse on-job impacts, including lower efficiency and productivity, more sickness, higher accident rate, increased dangerousness to self and co-workers, higher costs.
medicolegal.tripod.com /edison1914.htm   (11622 words)

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