Author and playwright Gray dies

English playwright and diarist Simon Gray has died aged 71. The author penned more than 30 plays for stage and TV, including Butley, Quartermaine's Terms, Melon and The Common Pursuit, as well as five novels.

[Sheri]

So, the honorable playwright smoked over 3 packs a day, drank heavily, and died of prostate cancer. What a marvelous contribution he made to the world in the meantime. What does his death from prostate cancer have to do with smoking BTW?

[KHartman]

Sheri wrote:

So, the honorable playwright smoked over 3 packs a day, drank heavily, and died of prostate cancer.

"Gray, who once admitted smoking 65 cigarettes a day, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002.

"I've always been terrified of the consequences of smoking. Now I'm a year older and more terrified than ever," he told the Guardian newspaper last year."

Sheri wrote:

What does his death from prostate cancer have to do with smoking BTW?

http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/site/News2...

"Smoking influences progression and prognosis of prostate cancer through a process called aberrant hypermethylation of CpG (cytosine-phosphorothiolated guanine) sequences on related genes, a new study indicates.

Previous studies have shown a positive association between current smoking and prostate carcinoma, as well as between aberrant CpG methylation profiles of certain gene promoters and progression of prostate cancer. But the mechanism involved in these associations had not been elucidated."

[Free_America]

KHartman wrote:

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"Gray, who once admitted smoking 65 cigarettes a day, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002.
"I've always been terrified of the consequences of smoking. Now I'm a year older and more terrified than ever," he told the Guardian newspaper last year."
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http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/site/News2...
"Smoking influences progression and prognosis of prostate cancer through a process called aberrant hypermethylation of CpG (cytosine-phosphorothiolated guanine) sequences on related genes, a new study indicates.
Previous studies have shown a positive association between current smoking and prostate carcinoma, as well as between aberrant CpG methylation profiles of certain gene promoters and progression of prostate cancer. But the mechanism involved in these associations had not been elucidated."

Actually Prostate cancer is a result of the anti's blowing all that smoke up our A$$

[Linda]

Sheri wrote:

So, the honorable playwright smoked over 3 packs a day, drank heavily, and died of prostate cancer. What a marvelous contribution he made to the world in the meantime. What does his death from prostate cancer have to do with smoking BTW?

If you have ever set with a prostate cancer patient as I have, the words you will hear from the prostate cancer surgeon is that either your father or his brothers have had prostate cancer. Genetics

[Sheri]

KHartman wrote:

<quoted text>
"Gray, who once admitted smoking 65 cigarettes a day, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002.
"I've always been terrified of the consequences of smoking. Now I'm a year older and more terrified than ever," he told the Guardian newspaper last year."
<quoted text>
http://www.fightprostatecancer.org/site/News2...
"Smoking influences progression and prognosis of prostate cancer through a process called aberrant hypermethylation of CpG (cytosine-phosphorothiolated guanine) sequences on related genes, a new study indicates.
Previous studies have shown a positive association between current smoking and prostate carcinoma, as well as between aberrant CpG methylation profiles of certain gene promoters and progression of prostate cancer. But the mechanism involved in these associations had not been elucidated."

Of COURSE it causes prostate cancer as well as grey hair and brittle nails. The fact that all the people I know with prostate cancer: two people only were lifelong non-smokers with a history of the disease are of no value to scientists. It's always and only about smoking...no matter what. How about that anti smoking lawyer who died of cancer at 78 the other day? How did HE get cancer?

[Mythos]

This man was an artist, a creator, and all some "anti" can do is come here and cite some prostate study. He achieved more than you would in 500 years, get over it. He didn't succeed at something to spite you. Go off and create a life for yourself like he did. So far, you have achieved the ability to cut and paste things you don't even really understand except for the first lines of the studies you cite. Bravo!