Celebrities who died of smoking-related illness

Allen, Gracie, 58, actress; heart attack (August 27, 1964)

The Burns and Allen Show
Allen lived with an George Burns, an inveterate cigar smoker, for 38 years; she had a long history of heart problems.
Benaderet, Bea, 62, TV actress; emphysema/lung cancer (October 13, 1968)
Beverly Hillbillies, Burns & Allen, Petticoat Junction, Betty Rubble's voice in The Flintstones

Cobb, Ty, 74, baseball player; cancer, diabetes, chronic heart disease (July 17, 1961)

Disney, Walt, 65, animator, producer; lung cancer (acute circulatory collapse following an operation to remove a tumor) (December 15, 1966)

Eliot, T.S., 76; author, poet; emphysema (January 4, 1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hallow Men, Murder in the Cathedral

Fleming, Ian, 56, author; heart attack (August 12, 1964)

James Bond novels

Grant, General Ulysses S., 63, throat cancer (July 23, 1885)

18th President of the US

Hayward, Susan, 55, actor; lung cancer metastized to her brain (March 14, 1975)

I'll Cry Tomorrow, I Want to Live!

King of England, lung cancer (1952)

Rand, Ayn, author/philosopher; lung cancer (March 6, 1982)

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Reynolds, R.J., 58, founder of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., emphysema, (1916)

Shirley, Anne, 75, actress; lung cancer (July 4, 1993)

Anne of the Green Gables, Stella Dallas

Vaughan, Sarah, singer; lung cancer (1990)

Broken-hearted Melody

Young, Coleman A., 79, Detroit, Michigan's longest-serving mayor. Emphysema. (November 29, 1997)

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