If Tobacco Killed Them, Why Won't It Kill You?

Luiz Jose Costa, 36, Brazilian music star * lung cancer

Carrie Hamilton, 38, actress, writer, musician * lung cancer

Wilhelmina Cooper, 40, modeling pioneer * lung cancer 

Judy Holliday, 43, actress * throat cancer

Nat "King"Cole, 45, singer * lung cancer

Nancy Gore Hunger, 46, sister of V.P. Al Gore * lung cancer

Mary Wells, 49, singer ("My Guy") * larynx cancer

Errol Flynn, 50, actor *heart attack

Steve McQueen, 50, actor * lung cancer

Jack Cassidy, 50, actor * died in a fire from smoking in bed

Rod Serling, 51, director & heavy smoker * heart disease

Carl Wilson, 51, musician (Beach Boys) * lung cancer

Wayne McLaren, 51, "Marlboro Cowboy" * lung cancer

Roger Maris, 51, baseball player (N.Y. Yankees) * lung cancer

Robert Shaw, 51, actor (Jaws) * heart attack

Lloyd Haynes, 52, TV actor * lung cancer

Eddie Kendrick, 52, singer (Temptations) * lung cancer

Roy Orbison, 52, singer ("Pretty Woman") * heart attack

Babe Ruth, 53, baseball player * oral cancer

Jimmy Dorsey, 53, musician, band leader * lung cancer

Lindley ("Spike") Jones, 53, band leader * emphysema

Jerry Garcia, 53, musician (Grateful Dead) * heart attack

William Talman, 53, actor (Perry Mason's adversary) * lung cancer

Michael Landon, 54, actor * pancreas and liver cancer

Mark Belanger, 54, baseball shortstop Orioles * lung cancer

Larry Gilbert, 55, PGA golfer * lung cancer

Susan Hayward, 55, actress * lung cancer

Lee Remick, 55, actress * lung and liver cancer

Doug McLure, 56, TV actor (The Virginian) * lung cancer

Betty Grable, 56, "pin-up" girl, actress * lung cancer

King George VI, 56, Father of Queen Elizabeth II * lung cancer

Ian Fleming, 56, James Bond creator * heart attack

Eddie Rabbitt, 56, singer, song writer * lung cancer

Humphrey Bogart, 57, actor ("Casablanca") * esophagus cancer

Will Thornbury, 57, modeled for Camel TV ads * lung cancer

Edward R. Murrow, 57, reporter * lung cancer

Wolfman Jack, 57, music disk jockey * heart attack

George Harrison, 58, musician (The Beatles) * lung cancer

Gracie Allen, 58, actress (wife of George Burns) * heart attack

R.J. Reynolds, 58, tobacco company founder * emphysema

R.J. Reynolds, III, 59, tobacco company heir * emphysema

Clark Gable,  59, actor ("Gone With The Wind") * heart attack

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