# Dana Reeve was not a smoker

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dana-reeve-was-not-a-smoker/347473>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dana-reeve-was-not-a-smoker/347473 "2006-03-08T02:22:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dana-reeve-was-not-a-smoker/347473/61 "2006-03-10T00:43:18Z")

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> [@tim314](#):
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> But I for one wouldn’t want everyone assuming I _had_ been a smoker if I died of lung cancer. (Although in my case it’s a non-issue since I’m not famous, so the only people who’d hear about it if I died already _know_ I don’t smoke.)

Amazing how the demonization of smokers has gotten to the point where a non-smoker may actually worry about the public thinking he was a smoker when he wasn’t.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dana-reeve-was-not-a-smoker/347473/62 "2006-03-10T00:49:50Z")

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> [@duffer](#):
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> Amazing how the demonization of smokers has gotten to the point where a non-smoker may actually worry about the public thinking he was a smoker when he wasn’t.

or maybe it’s just that the poster wouldn’t want people to think he was stupid enough to continue smoking and that helped cause his death.

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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dana-reeve-was-not-a-smoker/347473/63 "2006-03-10T01:02:52Z")

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> [@duffer](#):
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> Amazing how the demonization of smokers has gotten to the point where a non-smoker may actually worry about the public thinking he was a smoker when he wasn’t.

Would you want someone to think you had made a poor lifestyle choice when you hadn’t?

Can we agree that smoking = poor lifestyle choice?

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