What killed Nat King Cole

Who killed nat king cole?

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You could say cigarettes killed Nat King Cole, because he was a lifelong smoker and died of lung cancer.

How did nat king cole die?

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Nat King Cole died of lung cancer on February 15, 1965 at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He died at the age of 45 years old.

When was nat king cole born?

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Nat King Cole was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama. When he was young his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. He was a Jazz pianist.

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Why Don’t We Talk About Smoking and Celebrity Deaths?

Q: Before anyone critisises,I know what it is like to see someone suffer suffer with cancer from smoking and other related diseases, Trust me its not pleasant. its heart breaking.Actress Suzanne Pleshette’s recent death from “respiratory distress” was sad. Most of the articles about it briefly mention that she had been fighting lung cancer, but fail to mention that she had been a cigarette smoker in the past. Cigarette smoking is the single biggest cause of lung cancer. It is rarely discussed, but tobacco has taken an extraordinarily heavy toll on Hollywood. The list of beloved celebrities killed by smoking and secondhand smoke is huge, and growing: George Harrison, Johnny Carson, Dana Reeve, Amanda Blake, Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Nat King Cole, Joe DiMaggio, Michael Landon, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Betty Grable, and Babe Ruth to name just a few. Despite this, the failure to mention a person’s smoking history in obituary columns is the norm in celebrity deaths. In just one glaring example, a four page obituary about the 2005 death of prominent news anchor Peter Jennings published by his own network, ABC, fails to mention the contribution that smoking made to Jennings’ tragic and untimely death. A CNN’s column about Jennings’ death didn’t mention it either. Something is up when major news organizations omit any mention the single most prominent cause of the death of a renowned news anchor. Big Screen SmokingSilver Screen Star Marlene DietrichSmoking has always been common in the entertainment industry, and Hollywood has a track record of promoting smoking. Lois Lane, a reporter who never smoked throughout her 40 years in Superman comics, was suddenly shown smoking on-screen in the movie Superman II. Tobacco industry documents reveal that Sylvester Stallone signed a contract with Brown & Williamson to plug their brands in five of his movies in exchange for $500,000. A study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2004 shows that on-screen smoking rates in movies have now returned to rates seen in the 1950s, even though far fewer people smoke now than in the 1950s. Given that smoking was perceived as a more normal activity when Suzanne Pleshette came of age, her smoking wasn’t unusual. As the years went on, she was able to quit. But the harm had already been done. So why is the media so reticent to mention the part cigarettes play in killing off so many beloved public figures? Probably because of the cruel but popular belief that people who suffer from lung cancer and emphysema have caused their own diseases. Reporters don’t want to be perceived as blaming the victim. Jacking Up NicotineThis damaging and misplaced stigma, however, ignores some important information that has emerged from tobacco industry documents: cigarette companies chemically engineer their products to maximize their addictive qualities. In the mid-1970s, cigarette companies began freebasing nicotine by adding ammonia to tobacco. Freebasing is a chemical process that makes smoke slightly more alkaline, resulting in nicotine being converted to a form that is more rapidly absorbed by the body. It gives the smoker a faster, harder “kick” after lighting up. Tobacco companies that first employed this chemical change, like Philip Morris, won a bigger market share for their products. This did not go unnoticed by competitors, who eventually discovered the change and started freebasing nicotine, too. Ultimately, it became state-of-the-art in cigarette manufacturing. Freebasing is the same chemical process that drug dealers use to turn cocaine into crack. Tobacco companies even use the same chemical that drug dealers use to freebase cocaine, ammonia. But they neglected to ever make consumers aware of this subtle, but powerful, chemical change in cigarettes. By comparison, heroin, a notoriously addictive illegal drug that has killed a tiny fraction of the celebrities and others killed by cigarettes, doesn’t have this type of chemical engineering, since it doesn’t have wealthy corporate research and development departments working to make them more addictive. This under-the-radar chemical engineering, and its ultimate effect on smokers of making it harder to quit, is one reason why it is unfair to blame smokers for their diseases. Another reason why media outlets are hesitant to mention smoking as a contributor to celebrity deaths may be that big media conglomerates also now own magazines and other media outlets that still accept advertising from tobacco companies, which themselves own numerous subsidiaries that make non-tobacco products. To repeatedly highlight the part that smoking plays in killing well-known public figures could result in a loss of advertising dollars. Tobacco industry documents show that tobacco companies used to get upset when newspaper publishers placed cigarette ads next to obituary columns and funeral notices, back when most newspapers still accepted cigarette ads. Read Between the LinesReporters may also lack the authoritative documentation they need to back up statements that smoking contributed to a person’s death. Most death certificate forms don’t have an easy way for doctors to indicate the part tobacco played in contributing to someone’s death. Industry documents show that tobacco companies had a hand in this as well. The Tobacco Institute worked quietly behind the scenes to prevent legislation that would allow states to place a check box on death certificates allowing doctors to indicate whether a deceased person had used tobacco. Such a check box would have made it far easier to accumulate data regarding the number of people killed by cigarettes, and would have facilitated tabulation of the overall contribution of cigarettes to the death rate in society. This small change on death certificates posed a distinct threat to tobacco companies. The result is that information quantifying cigarette deaths is more difficult to accumulate than it might be if the cigarette industry not interfered with what can be put on death certificates. Whatever the reason that smoking is not openly discussed in celebrity deaths, the result is a chronic underreporting of the seriousness of the damage this product is doing to our population. Every celebrity who dies from smoking and about whom we cover up that information is a missed opportunity to educate the public about the toll cigarettes take on society. We need to more clearly define smoking’s contribution to the death rate, so that the living can more clearly see the urgency in minimizing tobacco use.I am also a x smoker, for only 16 months after smoking for many years.anti smoking lobby NO!

A: your right midnidght i have personally seen it happen but i think the goverment will not outlaw it until there is no money to be made at the end of the day i personnally think if the goverment is;nt makin money they will outlaw it until they have a way to tax it its the same since prohibition at the end of the day i think thats the way it is and will alwaysbe unless we decideto do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know What this is?

Q: It’s a french movie, it was on TV couple years ago. I don’t remeber entirely [i was reading subtitles] but it’s about this lady who fell in love with a married doctor.. but he didn’t love her. And she started thinking that he loved her and all, but it was all in her head, so basically she was obsessed with him. Then i think she tried to kill him or something and she went to a mntal asylum. there, she was getting better and she was allowed to leave. but then they found all the medicine tablets she was supposed to be taking in a picture of the guy she loved. i don’t remember the ending, but i know the song, “L-O-V-E [L is for the way you look at me…] by Nat King Cole was in it. DO you know what movie this is?Thanks so far to you who have answered! I’ll take your answers and find out!Thanks to you all, but it wasn’t any of them, still, thanks

A: It sounds like a movie that jenna elfman did and it was called obsessed . I hope this might help. good luck and god bless and happy thanksgiving.

What other bands would I like?

Q: I listen to A MIX of(some of each):Telepopmusik, Cold War Kids, Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter, Lily Allen, Phoenix, Bad Veins, Florence And The Machine, Zero 7, Aly and AJ(insomniatic – album), Demi Lovato(first album), Air, Animal Collective, Ashley Tisdale(first album), Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, some Beirut, some Badly Drawn Boy, Black Kids, a few of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Coldplay(parachutes – arobtth, the rest weren’t that good), Crystal Castles, Death Cab For Cutie, Dirty Projectors, DevotchKa, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Friendly Fires, The Go! Team, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Hives, Home Video, Radiohead, Ida Maria, Kate Nash, Klaxons, Last Shadow Puppets, Matt & Kim, some Metric, Meiko, some of Moby, Park Avenue Music, Postal Service, Rooney, Shins, Strokes, Santigold, Spoon, Submarines, Sufjan Stevens, some Garbage, a few of Tokyo Police Club, The Virgins, Vampire Weekend, We Are Scientists, Weezer, some of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, some White Lies, RENT Soundtrack

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