| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 41 Personalities, celebrities, and "famous deaths" |
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| Actor Steve McQueen died of lung cancer at age 50 and was a smoker, but his |
| cancer type was mesothelioma, normally associated with asbestos exposure, not |
| smoking. Whether he ever smoked Kents with micronite asbestos filters when they |
| were marketed in the 1950's is not clear. |
| Information courtesy of Lonnie Bristow, M.D., past president, American Medical |
| Association. |
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| "Sammy Davis, Jr. smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, although this fact was |
| omitted from People magazine's cover story when he died of throat cancer in 1990. |
| Tobacco advertising is important to Time Warner, Inc., publisher of Time, Life, |
| People, and Fortune. And if people who smoke have less time on earth to enjoy life - |
| well that's their problem, because by accepting tobacco ads, Time makes a Fortune." |
| From Kids Say Don't Smoke, Andrew Tobias |
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| Brad Pitt smokes Camels. |
| Newsweek, February 3, 1997, p. 49 |
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| Actor Kevin Spacey chain smoked while eating organic food during an interview with |
| Us magazine. |
| Tobacco Control, Summer 1997, p. 143 |
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| Corporate CEO's who smoke include Robeto Goizueta of Coca-Cola (who died of |
| lung cancer in October 1997), Arthur Ryan of Prudential, Lewis Platt of |
| Hewlett-Packard, Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, and Robert Crandall of |
| American Airlines. |
| Wall Street Journal, October 30, 1997, p. B1 |
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