Jerry Reed's death by cigarette smoking

One of the good old boys passed away this month, Jerry Reed - an everyday talent who rose from picking the guitar, to writing popular songs and Hollywood movie fame.

[jerry]

One of the greatest guitar pickers ever. Great singer and comedian. He will be greatly missed by the publc.

[azmac]

They also list John Wayne which died because of a movie in an area where they did atomic bomb testing. Most of the cast died because of it. Susan Hayward also died because of it. Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at 83. Old age. They will use any thing to make money.
Jerry Reed will be missed.

[Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

Jim Fixx died from jogging didn't he?

[nun ya]

I've watched all the Smokey and the Bandit movies. We all loved Jerry Reed down here in our little neighborhood. If you ever catch yourself coming down to south Louisiana you might just hear Good Ole' Jerry's songs playing.
R.I.P Jerry Reed

[DodgeMan]

please who dont smoke die in plane crashes too

and your point would be?

[danny]

Unless you repent you will all likewise perish.Were all going to die one day,the question is is where you spend eternity.What you do on earth matters forever. Jesus said be holy for I Am holy.

[mazed]

The Claw kicks.

[Tony209]

You also remind me the two actress died by smoking. Lucy and her husband died by smoking cancer.

Tony

[azmac]

Tony209 wrote:

You also remind me the two actress died by smoking. Lucy and her husband died by smoking cancer.
Tony

Prove it.

[Sez Who]

Tony209 wrote:

You also remind me the two actress died by smoking. Lucy and her husband died by smoking cancer.
Tony

No, while you are right that Desi Arnaz died from lung cancer, Lucille Ball did not. She died from an dissecting aortic aneurysm (a condition associated with heavy smoking and high blood pressure.)

[Freedom]

Sez Who wrote:

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No, while you are right that Desi Arnaz died from lung cancer, Lucille Ball did not. She died from an dissecting aortic aneurysm (a condition associated with heavy smoking and high blood pressure.)

Tell that to George Burns.

You might also wish to take your hate up with Mark Twain.

Do you really think you are something new?
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The Moral Statistician

Originally published in Sketches, Old and New, 1893

I don't want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it.

I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc. etc.

And you are always figuring out how many women have been burned to death because of the dangerous fashion of wearing expansive hoops, etc. etc. You never see more than one side of the question...

Now you know all these things yourself, don't you? Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age?

What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you?

In a word, why don't you go off somewhere and die, and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as ornery and unlovable as you are yourselves, by your villainous "moral statistics"?

Now, I don't approve of dissipation, and I don't indulge in it either; but I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices. And so I don't want to hear from you any more.

I think you are the very same man who read me a long lecture last week about the degrading vice of smoking cigars, and then came back, in my absence, with your reprehensible fire-proof gloves on, and carried off my beautiful parlor stove.
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Those who forget the past will repeat it. Those who deny the past should be feared.

[azmac]

Sez Who wrote:

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No, while you are right that Desi Arnaz died from lung cancer, Lucille Ball did not. She died from an dissecting aortic aneurysm (a condition associated with heavy smoking and high blood pressure.)

Actually smoking reduces high blood pressure if you look at the real facts and not the what the drug companies tell you.