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Michael Douglas Caught Smoking Again after Beating Throat Cancer
NY Daily News ^ | 7/29/11 | Nancy Dillon

Posted on 07/30/2011 7:31:27 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta

Actor Michael Douglas was photographed smoking on a yacht last week - less than a year after "beating" stage IV throat cancer.

The Oscar winner appears on the new cover of Star Magazine and in photos inside puffing on what appears to be a hand-rolled cigarette July 21.

He looks tanned and relaxed in the exclusive Star photos, leaning on the yacht's railing while traveling with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones along the Italian Riviera.

"Are you calling about the photos, because we have no comment," a rep for Douglas' spokesman Allen Burry told the Daily News.

The Hollywood icon, 66, was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer last August and lost 32 pounds undergoing intensive chemotherapy and radiation.

"I feel good. I feel relieved," the actor told NBC "Today" host Matt Lauer in an interview in January, revealing that his treatment was a success.

"The tumor is gone," he told Lauer. "The odds are with the tumor gone and what I know about this particular type of cancer, that I've got it beat."

"It's rare to return to smoking after something like this, but it's an addiction akin to heroin. It's a physical addiction, not just psychological, and very difficult to break," said Dr. Eric Genden, a Mt. Sinai surgeon.

"It's a bad idea. In patients with a history of carcinoma of the throat, smoking represents an exceptionally high risk to developing recurrence and even dying from the disease."

It's possible Douglas was smoking medical marijuana or another substance other than tobacco, but medical marijuana typically is used to treat loss of appetite and nausea while treatment is ongoing.

Most patients quit any type of smoking because it tends to cause a burning sensation on throat tissue damaged by radiation, Genden said.

It's a really bad idea," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: addiction; cancer; michaeldouglas; pufflist; reefermadness; smoking; throatcancer
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1 posted on 07/30/2011 7:31:28 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Catherine Zeta-Jones arrives with her husband Michael Douglas and their children Dylan and Carys Douglas, to attend a Royal Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London on February 24, 2011.

2 posted on 07/30/2011 7:32:53 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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Even IF some medical benefit could be shown to marijuana, smoking it would not be the health conscious delivery method


3 posted on 07/30/2011 7:34:12 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Its a tuff addiction
4 posted on 07/30/2011 7:36:08 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

It’s a monkey to beat, but then again, he probably thinks his time is limited and what the heck.

After all that pain though, I can’t imagine wanting more when the cancer re-occurs, which is most certainly will.


5 posted on 07/30/2011 7:36:08 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

quit in 1976.... 2 packs a day...smoking for 14 years...

you have to decide to quit...you have to want to quit....and you have to go cold turkey....

now after 35 years, I still have a slight urge to have a cigarette after a cup of coffee...

a nasty habbit that requires one to make a life decision and not a ‘for now I will quit but will start again when I feel better’ decision...


6 posted on 07/30/2011 7:37:51 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Stupid is as stupid does.


7 posted on 07/30/2011 7:37:51 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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8 posted on 07/30/2011 7:40:49 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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Death wish


9 posted on 07/30/2011 7:41:49 AM PDT by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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10 posted on 07/30/2011 7:42:10 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
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11 posted on 07/30/2011 7:42:31 AM PDT by keypro (Dubyateaeff)
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look at the pic. he is in the doobie zone, not cigs.


12 posted on 07/30/2011 7:43:01 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: Vaquero

I quit cold turkey in March of 1986. It took five years before I quit reaching in my shirt pocket for one...


13 posted on 07/30/2011 7:43:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Vaquero
You are SO right.

I've quit a dozen times ... sometimes a few days, once about 8 months .. and I've succombed for some idiot reason or another and get hooked immediately all over again.

The scriptural, "O miserable wretch that I am .. " blares in my prayers.

14 posted on 07/30/2011 7:43:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Could it also be that he is not cured and his days are limited?

I'm on attempt #9. Going well so far.

15 posted on 07/30/2011 7:44:03 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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16 posted on 07/30/2011 7:44:06 AM PDT by keypro (Dubyateaeff)
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To: beebuster2000

Agreed. No chance Mr. Douglas rolls his own smokes.

That’s a doobie!


17 posted on 07/30/2011 7:44:08 AM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: Vaquero

I agree. I quit November 25, 1977, cold turkey, smoked 3 packs per day. One of the worse parts was dreaming about smoking. The other day I was talking with my wife and mentioned to her that if I had not quit smoking when I did I would be dead by now.


18 posted on 07/30/2011 7:44:40 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Vaquero

Good for you!

Quitting takes smarts and guts. My sister-in-law is a cancer specialist and smokes a pack a day. She has tried everything and can’t quit.

Everything except just quitting. That’s what you have to do...just quit.


19 posted on 07/30/2011 7:45:25 AM PDT by kjo
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To: A. Morgan

Well, my guess is that is HIS choice to do. I am sure through his medical coverages and his personal fortune he pays his entire medical care bill so why should we be upset. I am frankly more upset by the number of benefits I am paying for those who have no insurance and are involved in distructive behavior.

BTW, I don’t smoke, gave it up in 72 after Army. We don’t let anyone in our house or cars who smokes now either nor do we frequent places where smoking is tolerated. That is our choice.


20 posted on 07/30/2011 7:45:45 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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