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CELEBRITIES WITH LUNG CANCER (past and present)

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Okay guys here as I promised is the list that I found online of celebrities with lung cancer be ready to be shocked! This is all info gathered from www.celebritieswithcancer.com check it out;
Edward Albert - Actor
Desi Arnez - Actor
Mark Belanger - Baseball Player
Jack Benny (Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer) - Comedian
Leonard Bernstein - Composer
Gerald Boyd - Managing Editor, New York Times
Yul Brynner - Actor
Herb Caen - Journalist
Allen Carr - Anti-Smoking Guru
Eric Carr - Musician
Nat "King" Cole - Musician
Gary Cooper - Actor
Luiz Jose Costa - Musician
Joe DeNardo - TV Meteorologist
Willie Denson - Singer-Songwriter ("Mama Said")
Joe DiMaggio - Baseball Player
Walt Disney - Animator
Jimmy Dorsey - Musician
Morton Downey, Jr. - Comedian
Duke Ellington - Musician
Barbara Epstein - Editor (New York Review of Books, US edition of The Diary of Anne Frank)
Freddy Fender - Singer
Jim Finks - Football Player
Kam Fong - Actor
Larry Gilbert - Golfer
Paul Gleason (Mesothelioma) - Actor (NOT JACKIE GLEASON THIS IS A DIFFERENT ACTOR)
Stephen Jay Gould (Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma) - Scientist
Betty Grable - Actress
Bobby Hachey - Singer
Carrie Hamilton - Actress
Lloyd Haynes - Actor
Susan Hayward - Actress
Mo Howard - Comedian
Nancy Gore Hunger - Al Gore's Sister
Peter Jennings - ABC Anchor
Andreas Katsulas - Actor (One-armed man in "The Fugitive")
Eddie Kendrick - Singer
Jiddu Krishnamurti - Religious Teacher
Jesse Donald [Don] Knotts - Actor
Larry Linville - Actor (Comedy)
Robert Mardian - Watergate figure
Roger Maris (Lung Cancer, Lymphoma) - Baseball Player
Bob Marley - Singer
Dean Martin (Lung Cancer, Testicular Cancer) - Actor
Kiel Martin - Actor
Pat Marsden - Broadcast Journalist
Roddy McDowell (Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer)
Wayne McLaren - Marlboro Man
David McLean - Marlboro Man
Doug McLure - Actor
Steve McQueen - Actor
Audrey Meadows - Actress
George Melly - Singer / Writer / Critic
Melina Mercouri - Actress
Tammy Faye Messner - Televangelist
George Millay - Founder of SeaWorld and Wet 'n Wild
Robert Mitchum - Actor
Claude Monet - Painter
Gabriel Montalvo - Vatican envoy and ambassador to the US
Edward R. Murrow - Journalist
Paek Nam-sun - North Korea Foreign Minister
Charles Norwood - Member of Congress (R-GA)
Benny Parsons - NASCAR driver
Vincent Price - Actor
Eddie Rabbitt - Country Singer
Ayn Rand - Author
Lou Rawls (Brain/Lung Cancer) - Soul Singer
Harry Reasoner - Journalist
Dana Reeve - Actress
Lee Remick (Kidney, Liver, Lung Cancer) - Actress
Cal Ripkin, Sr. - Baseball Player
Wayne Schenk - Lottery Winner
Beverly Sills - Opera singer
Ed Sullivan - Entertainer
Will Thornbury - Actor (Camel TV Ads)
Spencer Tracy - Actor
Beau Tucker - Country Music Manager (father of Tanya Tucker)
Forrest Tucker - Actor
Jim Varney - Comedian
Marion E. Warren - Photographer
John Wayne - Actor
Sandy West - Drummer ("The Runaways")
Sir Kyffin Williams (Lung, Prostate) - Artist
Carl Wilson - Musician
Warren Zevon (Mesothelioma) - Musician

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