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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 41 Personalities, celebrities, and "famous deaths"

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The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, a cancer research center, is named for a

former president of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.

San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 1994

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Columnist Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle died in 1997 of lung cancer at

age 80, more than 30 years after he quit smoking.

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Actor James Garner in 1997 at age 68 gave up cigarettes after smoking a pack a day

for 55 years, after having had heart and vascular surgery.

USA Today, February 14, 1997, p. 2D

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In 1996 during his final interview, actor Robert Mitchum interrupted breathing oxygen

with smoke breaks. He died at age 79 of emphysema and lung cancer.

Biography, Arts and Entertainment television

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John Wayne, a six pack a day smoker, recovered from lung cancer diagnosed at age

57 when his left lung was removed. He died from stomach cancer at age 72.

Biography, Arts and Entertainment television

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Hubert Humphrey, who died of bladder cancer, smoked two packs a day for much of

his life.

Associated Press, February 9, 1998

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