| 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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