Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Smoking kills about five million people every year. This is a list of a few of the famous people who have died from tobacco-related diseases or smoking addiction. The list is biased towards older folks. Current smokers have a few more years to go. Still, it doesn’t take a keen sense of history to realize what has been lost.

Stephen Ambrose
Louis Armstrong
Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball
Mary Astor
Tallulah Bankhead
Count Basie
Leonard Bernstein
Art Blakey
Humphrey Bogart
Bobby Bonds
Walter Brennan
James Brown
Yul Brynner
Anthony Burgess
Prescott Bush
Rusty Burrell, original bailiff on The People's Court
Herb Caen
John Candy
Johnny Carson
Raymond Carver
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Graham Chapman
Grover Cleveland
Rosemary Clooney
Ty Cobb
Nat King Cole
Chuck Connors
Gary Cooper
Noel Coward
Bing Crosby
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Joe DiMaggio
Walt Disney
Jimmy Dorsey
Morton Downey, Jr.
Dwight Eisenhower
Duke Ellington
T. S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cotton Fitzsimmons
Ian Fleming
Curt Flood
Errol Flynn
Bob Fosse
Sigmund Freud
Clark Gable
Jerry Garcia
Jackie Gleason
Frank Gorshin
Stephen Jay Gould
Betty Grable
Ulysses S. Grant
Dashiel Hammett
George Harrison
Robert A. Heinlein
Lillian Hellman
Hubert H. Humphrey
Chet Huntley
John Huston
Burl Ives
Peter Jennings
Etta Jones
Spike Jones
Boris Karloff
Buster Keaton
Brian Keith
Eddie Kendricks
Michael Landon
Meyer Lansky - Famous gangster. Possibly related to me on my mother’s side.
Julie London
Roger Maris
Bob Marley
E.G. Marshall
Dean Martin
Lee Marvin
Groucho Marx
Zeppo Marx
Walter Matthau
Roddy McDowall
Steve McQueen
Audrey Meadows
Ann Miller
Robert Mitchum
Claude Monet
Garry Moore
Agnes Moorehead
Pat Nixon
Lloyd Nolan
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Patrick O'Neal
Roy Orbison
Jesse Owens
Robert Palmer
Bert Parks – Mr. Ms. America
Vincent Price
Denver Pyle
Anthony Quinn
Eddie Rabbitt
Jason Robards
Harry Reasoner
Pee Wee Reese
Lee Remick
Cal Ripken, Sr.
Jack Ruby
Babe Ruth
George C. Scott
Rod Serling
Dmitri Shostakovich
Frank Sinatra
Ed Sullivan
Spencer Tracy
John Wayne
Wolfman Jack
Frank Zappa
Warren Zevon