Maybe we should all start wearing those builder's dust masks....

A news report last night about Mrs. Reeve also speculated that lung cancer can occur in nonsmokers for a variety of reasons... one being secondhand smoke, of course... a past lung-related disease such as pneumonia which scarred the lungs... or pollution.

Besides claiming Mr. Kaufman and Mr. Jennings and also afflicting Mrs. Reeve, I just heard this today too....

Barbara Bel Geddes, the genteel stage and screen actress best known as Miss Ellie, the forbearing matriarch on the 1970s and '80s television series "Dallas," died Monday at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

The cause of death was lung cancer, according to her second cousin, Lewis Bennett, of San Francisco. She was 82.