Showing posts with label celebrities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrities. Show all posts

Friday, 18 September 2009

Patrick Swayze's Cancer Related to Smoking


The quit because... team was very sad to see the passing of Patrick Swayze (Roadhouse, Dirty Dancing, Donnie Darko). He's said in the past that:
"I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer..."
An American doctor gave a similar warning the other day:
"We do know, however, that we see more pancreatic cancers in people who smoke and we see more pancreatic cancers in people who are overweight.

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But there is no question that if you want to do all you can to avoid developing a malignancy in the pancreas, do not smoke," Dr. Brown emphasized.

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Dragon Who Hates Smokes


Dragon's Den star and anti-tobacco campaigner Duncan Bannatyne
attended a Quit Because presentation in London and talked to The Sun newspaper about being Children's Champion for QUIT. We're raising £500,000 to train teens to help other teens quit smoking.

Read The Sun's article here