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Deaths Behind the Limelight

Deaths Behind the Limelight. Hollywood personalities who smoked themselves to death and other stories. On the contrary to what is glamorized in the movies, movie stars know what smoking can do to them. Throat cancer patient and "Basic Instinct" writer Joe Eszterhas says:.

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Deaths Behind the Limelight

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  1. Deaths Behind the Limelight Hollywood personalities who smoked themselves to death and other stories

  2. On the contrary to what is glamorized in the movies, movie stars know what smoking can do to them.

  3. Throat cancer patient and "Basic Instinct" writer Joe Eszterhas says: “Hollywood films espouse a belief in goodness and redemption. Yet we are the advertising agency and sales force for an industry that kills nearly 10,000 people daily . . . My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood’s.” ESZTERHAS, J. ESZTERHAS: Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths, New York Times, Friday, August 9, 2002

  4. Movie stars are role models for youths and tobacco industry made use of movie industry to advertise its killer products. It is known as “product placement”

  5. Hollywood Non-smoker woman reporter Lois Lane in comics puffed Marlboro about 40 times in Superman II! http://www.anti-smoking.org/films.htm

  6. In a 1983 letter, Sylvester Stallone agreed to a payment of US$500,000 for smoking Brown & Williamson products in “no less than five feature films.”

  7. The producers of the James Bond film License to Kill took a$350,000payment to have James Bond smoke Larks in the movie. source: http://www.anti-smoking.org/other.htm

  8. Rajnikanth with his ‘unique style of smoking’ that the ‘youth like to copy’ accounted for4.2%of such incidents. Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=38205724

  9. Bollywood Aamir Khan, a smoker, received several offers to advertise cigarette, tobacco, gutka and alcohol but “I always refuse them because I do not want to mislead my fans”.

  10. Movie stars smoke to project a macho or feminine, sophisticated or rugged, sexy or sporty image. However, there is always the flip side of a story.

  11. Michael Landon (1936-1991) of “Little House on the Prairie” fame smokes four packs a day and he died of pancreatic cancer.

  12. Betty Grable a.k.a. the girl with the million dollar legs died oflung cancerat the age of 57 in 1973.

  13. Yul Brynner (1920 – 1985) died oflung cancer.

  14. Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) died of throat andesophagus cancer.

  15. Gary Cooper (1901-1961) died oflung cancer.

  16. Sammy Davis, Jr (1925-1990) died ofthroat cancer.

  17. Ed Sullivan (1901-1974) died oflung cancer.

  18. John Wayne (1907-1979) hadlung cancer. He survived a bypass surgery and died ofgastric cancer

  19. Walt Disney (1901-1966) died oflung cancer

  20. They are among the celebrities who died from smoking-related diseases.

  21. As a result of a rising awareness of the dangers of smoking, celebrities have spoken up in support of tobacco control. Among whom are …

  22. Superstar Jackie Chan, Ambassador of Anti-Smoking by American Cancer Foundation in 2001 • Christy Turlington, fashion model

  23. Tyra Banks, fashion model. • Boyz II Men, musicians

  24. Many of the celebrities who died from smoking-related diseases advocated for tobacco control in their final years or funds have been set up under their names.

  25. Yul Brynner founded the Head and Neck Foundation, Inc in 1983 (two years before his death).

  26. Walt Disney, Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute , • Sammy Davis, Jr. chaired the Great American Smoke Out event organised by the American Cancer Society, • Michael Landon, Michael Landon Childrens Cancer Fund, … and many others.

  27. Malaysian movies Cucu Datuk Merah (1963)

  28. Bara (1999)

  29. Lenjan (1998)

  30. Malaysian movie industry has to play a take the initiative in liberating its productions from smoking scenes.Think of it as a corporate duty to the youth and to society as a whole.

  31. Source: • Celebrities Killed by Smoking, http://www.saclung.org/thumbs/TUTDcelebs&smoking.htm • WHO will rein in desi Marlboro man? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/ uncomp/articleshow?msid=38205724

  32. Powerpoint by: Clearinghouse for Tobacco Control, National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang. tel: 604-657 0099 fax: 604-656 8417 Visit: www.ctob.org ctob/tob/005

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