The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 41 Personalities, celebrities, and "famous deaths"

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Doris Duke, whom the media called "The Richest Girl in the World", died at age 80 in

1993. Her father, tobacco magnate "Buck" Duke, left her $300 million when he died in

1925, after giving $107 million to found Duke University. She gave away $1 billion

during her lifetime and left an estate worth $1.2 billion, most willed to charity.

New York Times, November 2, 1993, p. A13 and Associated Press, October 29,

1993

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was "a lifelong chain smoker away from the cameras

who reportedly stopped only when she was given the cancer diagnosis."

Tobacco Free Youth Reporter, Summer 1994, p. 11

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RJ Reynolds Sr., founder of the tobacco company bearing his name, was a tobacco

chewer and died of pancreatic cancer at age 67. RJR Jr. was a cigarette smoker and

died of emphysema at age 58. RJR III smoked cigarettes and died of emphysema at

age 60.

Tobacco Control, Spring 1995, p. 95

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