[KJC1]

At least he tried to dissuade others from smoking later on. I’m a firm believer of better late than never, even if it meant he couldn’t save himself.

Rest in Peace.

[Mastador1]

I’m sorry for the families loss, but the Surgeon General first warned about the hazards of smoking fifty years ago. This man like all smokers chose to light that first smoke and keep lighting them, the fact that he was in ads is superfluous. I quit smoking twice, wasn’t smart enough to stick to it the first time, for me it was easy though I recognize that for others it is extremely hard. That being said it is still a choice, he knew it would kill him but chose to continue.

[icwhatudo]

So he smoked for 58 years and lived till 72?

Whats the normal life expectancy for a man born in 1942?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[greene66]

David McLean was my favorite Marlboro Man. He starred in a nifty but short-lived western tv-series entitled “Tate,” about a cowboy drifter with a crippled arm. Around 1960. He had a great weather-beaten face.

[Zakeet]

[mylife]

Look away...I'm hideous...

[prisoner6]

I like to eat.

People tell me the food I like to eat is "bad" for me.

I intend to die WITH A HAPPY TUMMY!

[dadfly]

he outlived plenty of the “health nuts” in his generation. God rest him.

[dfwgator]

“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 years. You can have those years! We don’t want ‘em, alright?” - Dennis Leary

[Sivad]

My friend chained smoked for well over 30 years. He developed
heart disease in the 80s. I don’t know how he did it but he got
on a heart transplant list. The transplant was a success and he
did well for a few years but he took to smoking again. He died
of lung cancer. Waste of a heart, I suppose .

[DoughtyOne]

Some of the posters on this thread have commented on the fact this guy lived beyond the normal life expectancy for males. I’m not trying to be harsh, but this is a quality of life issue too. You smoke for fifty years, your final days aren’t going to be quality days.

COPD, hauling around an oxygen tank, coughing up a lung...

I’m not here to stop anyone from smoking. If folks want to, that’s okay with me. You do realize you push insurance rates up for yourself. This costs your family. Your decline hurts the ones you love. They’d like to have a healthy you around for another decade.

Please don’t make comments that serve to mitigate the negative health problems associated with smoking.

[melsec]

I smoked up until 4 years ago when Freeper Dearolddad told me about his success with hypnotherapy. My wife and I made a booking with a psychologist who did this and have not had a smoke since! My heartfelt thanks to him as i no longer wake up coughing my lungs up every morning!

Mel

[Cyman]

72 years old. Average life expectancy for US males 75.7.

Pass me a pack of Pall Malls.

[OldPossum]

I have never understood the appeal of cigarettes. At age 12 my cousin and I got a supply of them, various brands. I thought they were horrible. He, on the other hand, liked them. I last saw this cousin 20 years ago and he was still puffing. Probably dead now.

My stepfather died at age 56 of lung cancer. He, too, started smoking at that age.

[Ditter]

I met The Marlboro man in New Mexico in the late 70’s, maybe it was this man. He had taken over the advertising job from his older brother (the original Marlboro Man) who had died of lung cancer.

Everyone in my family in my parents generation 1911/1980 died from smoking related diseases. Only one from actual lung cancer the rest from COPD. It was awful watching them struggle to breathe.

[MaxMax]

He died at 72? Was he supposed to live forever if he quit smoking?
He died old, not young. And achieving 72 outperforms probably 80% of Americans.

Good grief, at 72 a scratch on the arm can kill some people.