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Some thoughts by University of Wisconsin Professor Dan Lynch (retired):
“The newspapers carried a story that Andy Kaufman (played"Latka" on "Taxi") did not smoke after he died of lung cancer at age 35. Strangely enough they did not mention his extreme exposure to secondhand smoke and his occasional smoking in roles on the stage. I suspect this was planted by the tobacco companies to reassure readers that they still couldsmoke because "nonsmokers" like Andy Kaufman got lung cancer.
Have you noticed that in newspaper stories about the extremely old there always seemed to be something about their having used tobacco or still using it? My suspicion is that this was part of a disinformation campaign by tobacco companies similar to placing healthy looking actors in movies and having them smoke as part of the script.
Smoking in the script showing brands of tobacco seemed awfully important, too. I remember watching the movie "Bushwhacked" and even showing clips from it to my child and adolescent development class. This movie that is incredibly appealing to kids about 8-12 years old featured the star smoking Marlboros.
Last thought: It might be great if obituaries involving smoking related diseases contained a smoke exposure assessment (including secondhand smoke) so that people could begin to see through the tobacco companies' lies about the safety of tobacco.
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1. AUCKLAND, April 20, (Reuters) - Bert Sutcliffe, the dashing left-hand batsman who played 42 tests for New Zealand between 1947 and 1965, died in an Auckland hospice on Friday aged 77 after a long battle with emphysema.
2. SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Walter Chappell, whose sexually charged, black-and-white photographs of the human body and landscapes are shown in art galleries nationwide, died Tuesday in Santa Fe. He was 75. Chappell, who lived in El Rito in northern New Mexico, died of complications from lung cancer and a lung infection, said his companion, Linda Elvira Piedra.
3. JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) - Donald Craig Abood, a former writer, editor and photographer at The Providence Journal, died Wednesday of complications from lung cancer. He was 54.
4. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Montree Pongpanit, a veteran Thai politician with a reputation for corruption and opportunism, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 57.
5. VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Leslie Whiteley, a California woman with lung cancer who won a $21.7 million verdict against the tobacco industry, died of the disease Monday. She was 40.
6. STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) - Nancy Marchand, who played the scheming matriarch of a Mafia family on ``The Sopranos'' and the patrician publisher Mrs. Pynchon on television's ``Lou Grant,'' died of lung cancer a day before her 72nd birthday.
7. AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Terry Moore, an Amarillo Globe-News staff writer and columnist who was honored for accounts of his battle with lung cancer, died Wednesday. He was 32.
8. SEATTLE (AP) - Harry ``Bud'' Knudson, a pioneering business educator and author of 13 books on business management and organizational theory, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 69.
9. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Michaela Odone, whose efforts to develop a treatment for her son's rare disease inspired the movie ``Lorenzo's Oil,'' died Saturday of lung cancer at her home in Fairfax. She was 61
10. CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Tribune cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the daily comic strip ``Shoe,'' died early Thursday. He was 52. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after battling lymphoma since late last year.
11. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Jorge Oscar de Mello Flores, a founder and president of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil's most prestigious economics school, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 88.
12. SEATTLE (AP) - Faygele benMiriam, a cross-dressing civil service worker who won a Supreme Court ruling in a gay rights case, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 55.
13. LOS ANGELES (AP) - William J. Garry, who led Bon Appetit as it became one of the nation's most popular dining and hospitality magazines, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 56.
14. ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - James Barrow, a Superior Court judge for 33 years who guided Athens through the turbulent civil rights era, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure and complications of emphysema. He was 82.
15. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Milo A. Speriglio, a private detective who looked into the deaths of celebrities such as ``Superman'' star George Reeves and wrote three books claiming Marilyn Monroe was murdered, died Aug. 30 of lung cancer. He was 62.
16. COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Maxine Reese, who helped put Jimmy Carter in the White House and spearheaded efforts to make his hometown a national historic district, died Thursday after a battle with lung cancer. She was 68.
17. LOS ANGELES (AP) -Robert Burr, who has played Shakespeare's most memorable characters on the Broadway stage, died May 13. He was 78. Burr had emphysema, his son, Robert Burr Jr., told The New York Times for Sunday's editions.
18. GLEN ELLEN, Calif. (AP) - Sonoma County winemaking matriarch Helen Williamson Benziger died Tuesday after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She was 73.
19. AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Terry Moore, an Amarillo Globe-News staff writer and columnist who was honored for accounts of his battle with lung cancer, died Wednesday. He was 32.
20. VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - Al Purdy, who captured the common voice through use of vernacular and other touches to become one of Canada's greatest poets, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 81.
21. WILMINGTON (AP) - Jay Robinson, the former Charlotte school superintendent and state education board chairman who helped launch the state's aggressive school accountability program, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 71.
22. NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Veteran country music executive Joe Talbot died Friday of lung cancer, his family said. He was 72.
23. T. LOUIS (AP) - Robert E. Hillard, co-founder of the global public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc., died Wednesday of emphysema. He was 83.
24. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Manning J. ``Manny'' Post, a key fund-raiser for the California Democratic Party and adviser to generations of candidates, died Monday. He was 82. Post underwent surgery last year for treatment of lung cancer. He also suffered from other ailments, including skin cancer and emphysema.
25. ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Tommy Collins, who wrote country music hits for Merle Haggard, George Strait and other singers, died Tuesday of complications from emphysema. He was 69. His hits included ``If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')'' by both Strait and Ferlin Huskey, and Haggard's ``Carolyn.'' (If You Ain’t Smokin’ (You Ain’t Sufferin’) by Mike Sawyer
26. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - John Wehle Jr., who helped transform family-operated Genesee Brewing Co. into the nation's fifth-largest brewer before negotiating its sale in December, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 53.
27. NEW YORK (AP) - A game jersey, golf cart and passport that belonged to baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio are to go on sale at Christie's as part of a sports memorabilia auction that also includes items from Mark McGwire and Muhammad Ali. DiMaggio gave the items to the anonymous seller, according to Christie's. The Hall of Famer died last March after a five-month battle with lung cancer.
28. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Judy Jarvis, who battled lung cancer for 18 months while continuing as host of her nationally syndicated radio talk show, died Tuesday. She was 54.
29. INVERNESS, Calif. (AP) - Natasha Dakserhof Sazevich, a descendant of Russian nobility and longtime director of the art department at Marin Country Day School, died of lung cancer. She was 69.
30. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Republican state Sen. Kenneth L. Maddy, who represented California's Central Valley as a legislator for 28 years, died Saturday after a yearlong bout with lung cancer. He was 65.
31. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Popular Swedish writer Goran Tunstrom died at his home in Stockholm on Feb. 5. He was 62. ``There is no writing without pain,'' said Tunstrom, who in recent years was plagued by a heart attack, stroke, lung cancer and three car accidents.
32. WASHINGTON (AP) - Louis E. de la Haba, an editorial consultant who formerly worked for The Associated Press and National Geographic Society, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 69.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jim Varney, the rubber-necked comic who portrayed his rube character ``Ernest'' from hundreds of television commercials to a series of movies, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 50.
33. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Varney, one of America's most beloved comedic actors died today of lung cancer at his home in White House, Tenn. He was 50 years old.
34. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Edgar Bowers, a longtime University of California professor of English whose verse earned him one of poetry's top prizes, Friday of cancer. He was 75.
35. PHOENIX (AP) - Richard Kleindienst, who served as U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration and resigned during the Watergate scandal, died of lung cancer Thursday. He was 76.
36. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Art Hoppe, whose political and social satire entertained readers of his syndicated column in the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years, died Tuesday from complications linked to lung cancer. He was 74.
37. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Susumu Ohno, a pioneering geneticist whose research focused on the role of genes in evolution and sex determination, died Thursday from complications of lung cancer. He was 71.
38. PHOENIX (AP) - Race driver Denise Bennet, who won the national quarter-midget championship in 1966, died Friday of cancer at age 43. Bennet was the Arizona midget champion in 1983. In 1997, Bennet was inducted into the Arizona Auto Racing Hall of Fame. In April of that year, she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
39. MEXICO CITY (AP) - Meche Barba, a circus performer's daughter whose smoldering beauty brought her fame as a dancer in Mexican films, died Friday of pulmonary emphysema. She was 77.
40. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Alex Pitcher, a San Francisco civil rights leader who helped prepare legal briefs for the historic Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, has died. He was 75.Pitcher died Thursday after a yearlong fight against throat cancer.
41. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - James W. Walter, founder of a leading home builder and industrial company, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 77.
42. EASTON, Pa. (AP) - A councilwoman who died a week ago won re-election by four votes Tuesday night. Mrs. DePaul, appointed to the council in 1989, was diagnosed with lung cancer in January and in February underwent surgery for a brain tumor. She was 55.
43. ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) -- Cal Ripken Sr. was remembered as a loving father and a dedicated teacher Tuesday during an emotional funeral service that broke sharply with the stoic public image of the Ripken family. Both Cal Ripken Jr. and his brother Bill wept openly as they eulogized their father, who died Thursday of lung cancer at age 63.
44. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - David Bryson, the deputy director of the Oakland-based National Housing Law Project, died Dec. 25 of lung cancer. He was 58.
45. BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- James G. Driscoll, a veteran journalist known for his editorials and columns on politics and international affairs, died Tuesday after experiencing chest pains. He was 63.
46. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Patrick J. Frawley Jr., a business magnate who was motivated by his alcohol addiction to open a chain of rehabilitation centers, died Tuesday after undergoing lung surgery. He was 75.
47. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Beatrice Colen, best known as the roller-skating carhop on early episodes of ``Happy Days,'' died Thursday of complications from lung cancer. She was 51.
48. West Hollywood, Calif. (AP) - Tony Young, the star of the short-lived 1961 CBS show ``Gunslinger'' who went on to a long career as a TV character actor, died Feb. 26, 2002 of lung cancer. He was 64.
49. NEW YORK (AP) - 2002, Raven Chanticleer, the flamboyant founder of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, died March 31 of lung cancer. He was 72.
50. 5-19-02 SEATTLE (AP) - Marc Lindenberg, an influential scholar and a leader in humanitarian relief and international development, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 56. As an educator, at Harvard, University of Washington and the University of Oregon, Lindenberg pressed for greater involvement by universities in the problems of developing nations.
51. 5-16-02 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ray Stricklyn, a theater and film actor who became a Hollywood publicist representing Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, died Tuesday after a battle with chronic emphysema. He was 73.
52. 5-2-02 ATLANTA (AP) - Public Service Commissioner Bob Durden died Thursday after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 54. Durden, the PSC's current longest-serving commissioner, was a former university instructor and trial lawyer known for his detailed questioning of utility attorneys. The cancer left him unable to attend several commission meetings in the past year, although he voted by telephone at the PSC's Monday session.
53. 4-30-02 RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (AP) - Oreste Piccioni, renowned for pioneering 1950s research in the elementary components of matter that helped bring a Nobel prize to two colleagues, died April 13 of complications of diabetes and lung cancer.
54. August 2002 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jack McKinney, a longtime reporter and columnist who covered subjects from boxing to opera during his nearly 50-year career with the Philadelphia Daily News, has died. He was 73. McKinney died Saturday at the home of a friend, 12 days after being diagnosed with lung cancer, Also a former talk-show host, he retired from the paper in 1997.
55. August 2002 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gerald Gunther, the author of the standard American law school casebook ``Constitutional Law'' who was mentioned as Supreme Court prospect, died Tuesday of lung cancer. He was 75.
56. July 2002 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Mustafa Maarouf Saad, a former militia leader who lost his sight in one of the many attempts on his life during Lebanon's civil war, died of lung cancer Thursday. He was 5
57. July 2002 LOS ANGELES (AP) - James H. Lee, a stage, film and television writer honored with the Humanitas Award and an Emmy nomination for his work on ``Roots,'' died Tuesday after suffering from emphysema. He was 79.
58. July 2002 CHIMACUM, Wash. (AP) - John Fraser Vallentyne, who recorded city-changing events in 13 years as an award-winning photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 74.
59. June 2002 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rosemary Clooney, the mellow-voiced singer who co-starred with Bing Crosby in ``White Christmas'' and staged a dramatic comeback after her career was nearly destroyed by drugs and alcohol, died Saturday. She was 74. Clooney died shortly after 6 p.m. at her Beverly Hills home surrounded by her family, her publicist said. She had been hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a recurrence of lung cancer.
60. June 2002 CHICAGO (AP) - Jay Berwanger, who won the first Heisman Trophy and became the first player ever drafted by the NFL, died Wednesday of lung cancer. He was 88.
61. June 2002 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Slick Lawson, a photographer who shot album covers for Willie Nelson, George Strait, George Jones and other stars, died Saturday. He was 65. He had been in declining health in recent years because of emphysema and heart problems. Lawson, born Wilbur E. Lawson, took photographs for People, Time and Life magazines, many of them of country music artists.
62. June 2002 CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Former Clemson men's basketball coach Bobby Roberts, who led the Tigers to their best record in 63 years during the 1966-67 season, died at his home in Aiken, S.C., on Saturday. He was 74. Roberts, who had been battling lung cancer for several years, coached at Clemson from 1962-70.
63. June 2002 ST. LOUIS (AP) - One of most distinctive voices in sports has been silenced. Jack Buck, who in nearly five decades as a broadcaster rose from Harry Caray's sidekick to a St. Louis institution, died Tuesday night after a long hospital stay. He was 77. ``He had a great life,'' said Joe Buck, who joined his father in the booth in 1991 and called the Cardinals' victory over the Anaheim Angels for Fox. ``He didn't waste one minute of one day. He packed two lifetimes into one lifetime. He went from poor to wealthy in his lifetime, yet he never changed.'' Buck underwent lung cancer surgery Dec. 5. He returned to Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Jan. 3 to have an intestinal blockage removed and never left the hospital. Joe Buck said his father went in and out of a coma several times the last few weeks.
64. 5-19-02 SEATTLE (AP) - Marc Lindenberg, an influential scholar and a leader in humanitarian relief and international development, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 56. As an educator, at Harvard, University of Washington and the University of Oregon, Lindenberg pressed for greater involvement by universities in the problems of developing nations.
65. 5-16-02 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ray Stricklyn, a theater and film actor who became a Hollywood publicist representing Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, died Tuesday after a battle with chronic emphysema. He was 73.
66. 5-2-02 ATLANTA (AP) - Public Service Commissioner Bob Durden died Thursday after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 54. Durden won his first, six-year PSC term in 1990 as a Democrat, later switching to the Republican Party before his 1996 re-election. He served as chairman in 1991-92, 1995 and again last year. Durden was a member of the high-IQ society MENSA. He earned his bachelor's, master's and law degrees from Emory University. Georgia Trend magazine also named him among the ``100 Most Influential Georgians.''
67. 9-7-02 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marlene Adler Marks, author and columnist for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, has died. She was 54. Marks, who wrote the column, ``A Woman's Voice,'' died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a two-year battle with lung cancer.
68. 9-30-02 SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) - Mickey Newbury, who wrote Kenny Rogers' first hit and arranged ``American Trilogy'' as performed by Elvis Presley, died Sunday of emphysema. He was 62. Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Don Gibson and B.B. King all recorded Newbury songs. His most recognizable was ``Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),'' a psychedelic pop song that was a No. 5 hit for Kenny Rogers & The First Edition in 1968.
69. 10-3-02 ROME (AP) - Producer and director Bruce Paltrow, father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, died in Italy, the U.S. Consulate said Thursday. He was 58. He suffered a heart attack and died at a Rome hospital before dawn Wednesday, the Entertainment Tonight television program reported earlier. Paltrow, who had been battling throat cancer, traveled from his Los Angeles home to Italy to celebrate his daughter's 30th birthday on Sept. 27, the show said.
70. 10-13-02 By BRETT MARTEL NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Stephen E. Ambrose, whose best-selling books made America's aging World War II veterans hometown heroes again, died early Sunday at a Bay St. Louis, Miss., hospital. He was 66. Ambrose, a longtime smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in April.
71. MILWAUKEE (AP) - Jay Reed, an ex-Marine and journalist who brought his love of the outdoors to newspaper readers for nearly 40 years, died of lung and bone cancer. He was 73.
72. MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - Lawrence Andrew Rainey Sr., the former county sheriff whose acquittal in the murders of three civil rights workers was chronicled in the movie ``Mississippi Burning,'' has died. He was 79. Rainey's wife, Juanita Rainey, said he died Friday fighting throat cancer.
73. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Actor Brad Dexter, who rode with Yul Brynner as one of the ``Magnificent Seven'' and became a confidant of both Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra, died Thursday. He was 85. Dexter had been hospitalized with emphysema.
74. ATLANTA (AP) - Michael C. Carlos, a philanthropist whose generosity is evident at the Emory University museum that bears his name, died Saturday after battling lung cancer. He was 75.
75. 2-03 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country singer Johnny PayCheck was eulogized Tuesday as a man who battled hardships and addictions but found peace in the final years of his life. PayCheck, known for the blue-collar anthem ``Take This Job and Shove It,'' died last week at a Nashville hospital after a lengthy battle with emphysema and asthma. He was 64.
76. 3-03 SEATTLE (AP) - Liem Eng Tuai, a Superior Court judge who also was the second Chinese-American to serve on the City Council and an unsuccessful candidate for mayor, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 77.
77. 3-03 NEW YORK (AP) - Jose Marcio Ayres, a zoologist
who succeeded in saving large portions of rain forest in the Amazon Basin, died
Friday of lung cancer. He was 49.
Ayres, who was also the senior conservation zoologist at the Wildlife
Conservation Society, led the creation of a protected zone that stretched for
more than 20,000 square miles and contained thousands of species of fishes and
birds.
78. 3-03 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lenore Gould Breslauer, whose protest of the Vietnam war helped lead to the founding of Another Mother for Peace with its well-remembered motto ``War is not healthy for children and other living things,'' died Friday of lung cancer. She was 80. At the height of the Vietnam War, her group's motto and sunflower insignia were nearly ubiquitous on posters found on college campuses and in college dorms around the country.
79. 4-03. SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two days before he died of cancer, San Diego Chargers general manager John Butler talked about the NFL draft with coach Marty Schottenheimer. Butler, who helped build Buffalo's Super Bowl teams of the 1990s before becoming San Diego's GM, died Friday. He was 56. Butler died of lymphoma, his wife, Alice, said. He was diagnosed with lung cancer on July 4, but that disease was in remission following his final chemotherapy treatment in late January, she said.
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