Famous smokers
Cigars
Sir Winston Churchill

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Al Capone

Acknowledging Getty Images
Groucho Marx

Wiki Commons
George Burns

by Allan Warren
Cigarettes
Humphrey Bogart

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Mae West
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Mae West Died of a stroke at 871936 Public Domain
Lauren Bacal

and Marcel Dalio in To Have and Have Not (1944)
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John Wayne
Had Lung Cancer and Stomach Cancer
John Wayne, a six-pack-a-day smoker, lost his left lung in 1964 at age 57 to lung cancer. He went on to star in 27 more movies, inlcuding ?Rooster Cogburn? and his all-time classic ?True Grit?.
Jacques Brel, legendary poet, performer, musician, actor, director. In 1974 he had an operation in Brussels.

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Jaque Brel
Had Lung Cancer and Died of a Pulmonary Embolus

Had lung cancer died of pulmonary embolism at the age of 49
Rob Mieremet / Anefo
Walt Disney
Walt Disney lost a lung to cancer, which later recurred and took his life.

Disney had been a heavy smoker since World War I. He did not use cigarettes with filters and had smoked a pipe as a young man. In early November 1966, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and was treated with cobalt therapy
Died of lung cancer public domain
Jimi Hendrix
Died of an Overdose and Aspiration

aspirated on his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates
public domain
George Harrison
Died of head and Neck and Lung Cancer
George Harrison of the Beatles died of pharyngeal cancer at age 57.

Head and neck cancer and non small cell lung cancer metastatic to the brain
http://www.gahetna.nl/over-ons/open-data
he and his wife were also attacked by a psychiatric patient with a knife and he sustained a pneumothorax
King George VI
Died of Lung Cancer
The reign of George VI was marked by the relinquishment of the title of Emperor of India, following the partition of India in 1947 into Pakistan and India. George VI had cancer of the lung, resulting in resection of the lung

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Bob Eberly
Died of Lung Cancer

Public Domain
Lung Cancer – had a pneumonectomy in 1980, but still continued to sing and passed in 1981.
Kiel Martin
Died of Lung cancer

Kiel Martin of Hill Street Blues died of lung cancer at age 46.
The two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (Bill Wilson and Bob Smith) both died of lung cancer at ages 75 and 71 respectively.
Bill Wilson
Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Emphysema

Credit Craig Line
Morton Downey Jr.
Television Talk Show Host and Actor
Died of lung cancer at age 67.

Credit Alex Lozupone
Graham Chapman,
Monty Python comic,
died of throat cancer metastatic to spine at age 48.
Was an alcoholic

Credit http://www.cardinalfang.net/biographies/chapman_biog.html

Credit British Broadcasting Corporation
Eric Carr (Paul Caravello), the drummer for Kiss, died of lung cancer at age 41.
William Talman, lawyer on Perry Mason, died of lung cancer at age 51.
Jagziekte in Sheep
There is a disease in South African sheep called ?jagziekte? which histologically is similar to bronchioalveolar cancer. Efforts to use this knowledge to identify a transmissable agent have not been successful, but it is important to continue pursuit since ther certainly must be a transmissable agent.