# Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443 "2020-02-03T21:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/101 "2020-02-04T17:31:56Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Aw…you mean he’s gonna be cured? Well, he is a ham. d & r ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/102 "2020-02-04T17:40:28Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. Honesty is tasteless. Can’t say I’m surprised to have that coming from you. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/103 "2020-02-04T17:45:51Z")
I remember a gu[y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr.) who may have more-or-less started the ball rolling on the shouty, insulty, ugly RW assholery (no TV, though), and others, including the thread subject, followed his lead, refining the method. That guy apparently died of lung cancer (he was a prominent smoker, who would autograph fans’ cigarettes, but changed his tune when he was diagnosed). ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/104 "2020-02-04T18:07:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > No he didn’t, no he absolutely did not, and no fucking way in hell did he do any such thing. > > As for the sentimental bookends about being sad and missing him, I’ll take your word for it. I disagree with your opinion. Very strongly. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/105 "2020-02-04T18:17:04Z")
> [@Noelq](#): > > I disagree with your opinion. Very strongly. Yes, can you provide any substantive support for your various assertions? Or is it just a feeling. What one laudable thing did the junky do? Give us even one. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/106 "2020-02-04T18:18:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You reap what you sow. I rip what I sew. I’m a lousy haberdasher. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/107 "2020-02-04T18:20:01Z")
ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/108 "2020-02-04T20:36:52Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I rip what I sew. I’m a lousy haberdasher. You can be lousy at sewing and be a great haberdasher. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/109 "2020-02-04T21:40:57Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I understood that cigar smokers did not typically inhale the smoke and (if that is true) his cigar smoking should not have contributed to his lung cancer. Have I been misinformed? From what I read this morning, Rush quit smoking cigarettes in 2010 when he married his current wife. Cigars probably had nothing to do with his cancer unless he, like William Buckley, inhaled them. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/110 "2020-02-04T21:42:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I remember a gu[y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr.) who may have more-or-less started the ball rolling on the shouty, insulty, ugly RW assholery (no TV, though), and others, including the thread subject, followed his lead, refining the method. That guy apparently died of lung cancer (he was a prominent smoker, who would autograph fans’ cigarettes, but changed his tune when he was diagnosed). Was his name Morton Downey Jr.? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/111 "2020-02-04T21:52:23Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > Was his name Morton Downey Jr.? Had to be. He autographed cigarettes. I was in the audience for a show recording in the 80s. It was broadcast from Secaucus. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/112 "2020-02-04T22:04:08Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I understood that cigar smokers did not typically inhale the smoke and (if that is true) his cigar smoking should not have contributed to his lung cancer. Have I been misinformed? No, you haven’t been misinformed but he started smoking cigarettes at age 16. I remember watching him smoke cigarettes, years and years ago. I don’t know when he switched to cigars. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/113 "2020-02-04T22:14:58Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > No, you haven’t been misinformed but he started smoking cigarettes at age 16. I remember watching him smoke cigarettes, years and years ago. I don’t know when he switched to cigars. An article says he quit smoking cigarettes in the 80s, so I could be wrong but my memory serves up a picture of him or a doppelganger smoking like a chimney in the very late 80s or early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/114 "2020-02-04T22:37:07Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > No, you haven’t been misinformed but he started smoking cigarettes at age 16. I remember watching him smoke cigarettes, years and years ago. I don’t know when he switched to cigars. Yes, he has. And he received more than one post supplying evidence. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/115 "2020-02-04T22:43:15Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > Was his name Morton Downey Jr.? it was ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/116 "2020-02-04T23:19:35Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > From what I read this morning, Rush quit smoking cigarettes in 2010 when he married his current wife. Cigars probably had nothing to do with his cancer unless he, like William Buckley, inhaled them. It crosses my mind that he might have been frequently exposed to secondhand (firsthand?) smoke, though, so no doubt some carcinogens found their way from his cigars to his insides regardless. And regarding his impending suffering and death, I seem to have misplaced my violin. Possibly on account of it being so small… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/117 "2020-02-05T00:47:53Z")
Well, my aunt died of lung cancer, at 70, some years ago. There was no kind of smoking going on in the family. It might be possible that she was exposed to smoke in the office, but she did not work at all outside the home until the '80s or '90s, by which time smoking at work rapidly was being curtailed — and she worked for the city, so, probably not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/118 "2020-02-05T01:26:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > What one laudable thing did the junky do? Give us even one. I’m not Noelq but I can offer one… he contracted cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/119 "2020-02-05T02:43:38Z")
**46-1** is going to give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/120 "2020-02-05T02:59:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yes, can you provide any substantive support for your various assertions? Or is it just a feeling. What one laudable thing did the junky do? Give us even one. He donated/raised millions for charity including for cancer so give him that at least maybe you think he was a net negative for humanity but he did try to do some good, his philanthropy is on his Wikipedia page if you dispute it. Maybe even on the eve of his death he will donate even more towards charitable goals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443.md?page=7)