Hollywood’s
Smoking Casualties
They’re all before your time,
but here is a list of people who died because they smoked
on and off screen. They all had two things in common: One,
they made a difference in Hollywood; two, they all smoked.
They all died from it, too. Some suffered for more than 15
years with their disease before succumbing to it:
|
Celebrity |
Age |
Disease |
|
Nat King Cole (Natalie Cole’s
Dad) |
45 |
Lung Cancer |
|
Humphrey Bogart |
57 |
Throat Cancer |
|
George Harrison (The Beatles) |
58 |
Throat Cancer &
Lung Cancer |
|
Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind) |
59 |
Heart Disease |
|
Bob Fosse (Broadway Choreographer) |
60 |
Heart Disease |
|
Sammy Davis Jr. (Original Ocean’s
11) |
64 |
Throat Cancer |
|
Walt Disney |
65 |
Lung Cancer |
|
Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners) |
71 |
Heart Disease &
Cancer |
|
Ed Sullivan (The Ed Sullivan Show) |
72 |
Lung Cancer |
|
Moe Howard (Three Stooges) |
77 |
Lung Cancer |
|
Joe DeMaggio (Baseball Player) |
84 |
Lung Cancer |
To find out more about who died of
tobacco related diseases, go to www.saclung.org/thumbs/tutdcelebs&smoking.htm.
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