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Celebrities who died
from smoking, some with diagnosis and age at death:, Louis Armstrong, musician,
Desi Arnaz, actor and husband of Lucille Ball, lung cancer, 69, Lucille Ball, actress,
Leonard Bernstein, composer, lung cancer and emphysema, 72, Amanda Blake, actress,
Humphrey Bogart, actor, esophageal cancer, 57, Yul Brenner, actor, lung
cancer, 65, Rory Calhoun, actor, emphysema, 76, John Candy, actor, Nat King Cole,
singer, lung cancer, 45, Chuck Connors, actor, Gary Cooper, actor, Bing Crosby,
singer, Bette Davis, actress, Sammy Davis Jr., singer, throat cancer, 65, Joe
DiMaggio, baseball player, lung cancer, 84, Joe DiMaggio Jr., emphysema, 57, Everett
Dirkson, senator, lung cancer, 75, Walt Disney, lung cancer, 65, Duke Ellington,
musician, Sigmund Freud, James Franciscus, actor, Clark Gable, actor, Jerry Garcia,
Grateful Dead musician, heart attack, 53, A. Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner
and Yalepresident, heart attack, 53, Jackie Gleason, actor, Arthur Godfrey, actor,
emphysema, 80, Betty Grable, actress, lung cancer, 57,
Ulysses S. Grant, general,
throat cancer, 63, Chet Huntley, reporter, lung cancer, 62, John Huston, director,
David Janssen, actor, Stubby Kaye, actor, lung cancer, 79, Buster Keaton, actor,
emphysema, 70, Brian Keith, actor, lung cancer, 75 (actual death a suicide), King George
VI, Queen Elizabeth's father, lung cancer, 57, Michael Landon, actor, pancreatic
cancer, 54, Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist, lung cancer, 68, Larry Linville, Frank Burns in MASH TV
series, lung cancer,60, Lloyd Mangrum, World Golf Hall of Fame, heart attack,
59, Dean Martin, singer, emphysema, 78, Audrey Meadows, actress, lung cancer,
71, Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, lung cancer, 51, Melina Mercouri, actress,
Robert Mitchum, actor, emphysema and lung cancer, 79, Gary Morton, Lucille Ball's
second husband, lung cancer 74, Edward Mulhare, actor, lung cancer, 74, Edward R.
Murrow, reporter, lung cancer, 57, Pat Nixon, wife of Dick, Roy Orbison, singer, heart
attack, 52, Jesse Owens, Olympic athlete, Bert Parks, host, George Peppard, actor,
Vincent Price, actor, Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, throat cancer, 65,
Eddie Rabbit, singer, lung cancer, 56, Harry Reasoner, reporter, heart and lung
disease, 68, Pee Wee Reece, baseball player, lung cancer, 81, Lee
Remick, actress,
kidney and lung cancer, 56, Babe Ruth, throat cancer, 52, Rod Serling, "Twilight
Zone", heart attack, 51, Ed Sullivan, TV host, lung cancer, 72, William Talman, lung
cancer, 53 (lost all of his 251 TV courtcases to Perry Mason), Gene Tierney, actress,
emphysema, 67, Carl Wilson, Beach Boys lead guitarist, lung cancer, 51, Wolfman
Jack, disk jockey, heart attack, 57, Dick York, actor, emphysema, 61. |