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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer

  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Ayn Rand
  3. Yul Brynner
  4. John Wayne
  5. George Harrison
  6. Nat King Cole
  7. Steve McQueen
  8. Vincent Price
  9. Duke Ellington
    I was all set to write Humphrey Bogart… but while he was a heavy smoker, he died of throat cancer, not lung cancer.
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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer

  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Ayn Rand
  3. Yul Brynner
  4. George Harrison
  5. Nat King Cole
  6. Steve McQueen
  7. Vincent Price
  8. Duke Ellington

John Wayne removed. He died of stomach cancer, not lung cancer.

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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer

  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Ayn Rand
  3. Yul Brynner
  4. George Harrison
  5. Nat King Cole
  6. Steve McQueen
  7. Vincent Price
  8. Duke Ellington
  9. Dean Martin
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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer:

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin

While a heavy smoker, Bogart had esophagial cancer.
Ayn Rand died of heart failure 8 years after having surgery for lung cancer.
John Wayne had lung cancer in 1964 but died of stomach cancer 15 years later in 1979.
Steve McQueen died of mesothelioma which is caused by asbestos exposure, not smoking.

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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer:

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin
  8. Kathryn Joosten
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Where’d my Yul Brynner go???

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin
  8. Kathryn Joosten
  9. Yul Brynner (his posthumous anti-smoking commercial was unforgettable)
  10. Joe Dimaggio (remember when star athletes smoked?)
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:smack:
Sorry, lost it in editing.

Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer:

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin
  8. Kathryn Joosten
  9. Yul Brynner (his posthumous anti-smoking commercial was unforgettable)
  10. Joe Dimaggio (remember when star athletes smoked?)
    11.Paul Newman

Wow! Newman, McQueen, Dimaggio, Harrison, Disney…those were some of my favorite people!

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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer:

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin
  8. Kathryn Joosten
  9. Yul Brynner (his posthumous anti-smoking commercial was unforgettable)
  10. Joe DiMaggio (remember when star athletes smoked?)
  11. Paul Newman
  12. Peter Jennings
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Celebrities who smoked cigarettes and died of lung cancer:

  1. George Harrison
  2. Nat King Cole
  3. Steve McQueen
  4. Vincent Price
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Walt Disney
  7. Dean Martin
  8. Kathryn Joosten
  9. Yul Brynner (his posthumous anti-smoking commercial was unforgettable)
  10. Joe DiMaggio (remember when star athletes smoked?)
  11. Paul Newman
  12. Peter Jennings
  13. Edward R. Murrow

New list: members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. Ty Cobb .367
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Unusual trivia note: Tyrus Cobb was named after the city of Tyre. Cobb’s father had been reading a history of Alexander the Great and admired the way that Tyre had held out against Alexander’s army for seven months.

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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. Ty Cobb .367
  2. Babe Ruth .342
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. Ty Cobb .367
  2. Babe Ruth .342
  3. Tris Speaker .345
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. Ty Cobb .367
  2. Babe Ruth .342
  3. Tris Speaker .345
  4. Paul Molitor, .306 (REALLY high average Hall of Famers are EASY- try finding less obvious guys like Molitor!)
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(reformatted a little; I hope you guys don’t mind)

Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .357 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor (REALLY high average Hall of Famers are EASY- try finding less obvious guys like Molitor!)
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .357 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
  6. .312 - Joe Sewell
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .357 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
  6. .312 - Joe Sewell
  7. .344 - Ted Williams
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .357 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
  6. .312 - Joe Sewell
  7. .344 - Ted Williams
  8. .306 - George Kell
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .357 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
  6. .312 - Joe Sewell
  7. .344 - Ted Williams
  8. .306 - George Kell
  9. .325 - Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame with career batting averages over .300 (include player’s average).

  1. .367 - Ty Cobb
  2. .342 - Babe Ruth
  3. .345 - Tris Speaker
  4. .306 - Paul Molitor
  5. .302 - Willie Mays
  6. .312 - Joe Sewell
  7. .344 - Ted Williams
  8. .306 - George Kell
  9. .325 - Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio
  10. .358 - Rogers Hornsby
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We don’t mind. But Ty Cobb might beat you up for lowering his stats even though he’s been dead for fifty years.