The speculation at the time that I remember was prescription drug abuse. While it doesn't cause pneumonia or anemia, the user is effectively masking the symptoms so that they don't realize how sick they actually are.

Mike Farrell as Hunnicutt was mine.

I drive by a sign for one on the way to work every day. Ugh. And it's out in front of a Catholic high school. But, Virginia. They used to advertise in my college paper too.

Sometimes, I figure out how old it would be but not out of sadness, just as a "Huh, that would be different" kind of thing. Never regretted it, though.

Yes, but we reserve the right to retaliate when you share your disgusting bodily functions with us. Both ways.

That's cuisine, my friend. More for the rest of us.