So, he died close to the end of the life expectancy and he died of something.
/johnny
Looks like he stayed busy between puffs.
It reduces competition for resources (after a while)
Everything in life has risks, including being a couch potato. Some things have higher risks.
Every one who imbibes dihydrogen monoxide eventually dies too.
I smoked Kools for 30 years.
After my first heart attack, my cardiologists said “It was the smoking that killed you”
Threw 8 cartons in the trash when I got home.
Haven’t had one since.
It seems we lose one of these “ex-Marlboro men” every 10 years or so according to the “media”. We’re slowly losing all of them.
“Smoking takes ten years off your life. Well it’s the ten worst years, isn’t it folks? It’s the ones at the end! It’s the wheelchair, kidney dialysis, adult diaper fucking years. You can have those years! We don’t want ‘em, alright?” - Dennis Leary
Leni
As an ex-smoker I remember a cigarette and coffee, a cigarette and a beer and a cigarette after sex.
72 years old. Nothing tragic about that. Maybe he would have lived a few years longer if he didn’t smoke but it can’t be said he didn’t have a full life.
“Can’t think of many benefits of smoking.....”
Staying awake on sentry duty comes to mind.
It is calming. Would you be one of the folks that wanted them out of rations during WWII?
How about the ingestion of nicotine, an extraordinarily potent and beneficial anti-viral chemical?
Could the threatening of the multi-gajillion dollar medical industry have absolutely anything to do with the demonization of tobacco? Let alone the stimulating and calming effect on people that politicians want to be stupified and anxious? Let alone the fact that there are literally hundreds of chemicals, a great many of them carcinogenic, in tobacco additives and tobacco paper which are completely uninvestigated because those additives are considered "trade secrets"?
It's not the tobacco and it's not the nicotine that kills you. They keep you awake, calm and free from many viruses and other nasty bugs.
It's the additives.
No, not many benefits of smoking.
But the coverage of THIS death, i.e., it’s plastered all over Facebook, is ‘aha!” He smoked, he promoted smoking, he deserved to die. 72 is not an unusually young age to die.
Would the same finger-wagers DARE to have a similar reaction to a gay who died of AIDS? Most AIDS deaths are considerably younger than 72 and are also the result of bad behavioral choices.
Everything in moderation...
Tobacco companies used to be HUGE republican donors (one of their biggest)
How much do you want to bet that if they were huge DEM donors we would all be hearing about the healthful benefits of “bathing your lungs in cleansing smoke”