[cotton1706]

Hey, you wanted to lean over that reactor in Star Trek II. Don’t come crying to us!!

[Lakeshark]

He was not logical........

[a fool in paradise]

[OneWingedShark]

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of COPD, which is now the third leading cause of death in the United States.

How much you wanna bet that that's disregarding the true leading cause of death in America — abortion?

[Snickering Hound]

[skinndogNN]

You’re 82. You’ve lived a longer life than most folks. Don’t be blaming yourself for getting Lung disease when your 82.

[txrefugee]

Even actors have to die of something eventually. At 82, death is right around the corner for most people, regardless of whether you smoked or not.

[montag813]

Nimoy is incorrect to blame himself. I know several people in their 70s and 80s who have COPD and never smoked a day in their lives. In fact, many people with COPD have it as a result of lifelong, untreated asthma, or more serious conditions that their physicians thought were merely asthma, but we in fact more serious diseases.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[trisham]

Poor man.

[DannyTN]

Smoking wasn’t logical.

[OKSooner]

I remember one of my favorite actors, Yul Bryner, doing a PSA where he looked into the camera and said "Just don't smoke."

He was gone within a few weeks, it seemed.

[henkster]

He can’t say he didn’t live long, and didn’t prosper.

[kidd]

Prayers for Mr. Nimoy.

My mother-in-law died of COPD at 80. Whether a smoker or not, it is a painful way to go.

[Tupelo]

my younger brother has COPD. Former Marine. Vietnam Vet. Probably exposed to more crap there than we will ever know or imagine. Add to that fifty years of smoking and forty years in hot stinking press rooms working with unknown chemicals and breathing God only knows what vapors.
Sad to see.

[Bon of Babble]

My aunt died of COPD in her 80s. Never smoked a day in her life, she did, however live with a smoker for 30 years until he quit — my uncle developed lung cancer after he’d quit 30 years previously.

My aunt also swept out my uncle’s wood shop for years — dr. said her lungs looked like they’d been damaged by sawdust or asbestos.

It IS a painful way to go, she could never quite catch her breath, coughed 24/7 and said she felt like she was drowning.

[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad stopped smoking too late as well.He was in his 60's and the disease had already begun.But we saw to it that he got first rate health care (one of the few advantages of living near Boston) and he did reasonably well for about 15 years and then things accelerated.His last few years weren't pretty.

I thank God that when I started smoking at 15 it made me dizzy....dizzy enough for me to say to myself "smoking makes me look cool but this dizziness is crazy.I'm gonna stop".And I did.

[Sacajaweau]

He’s 82...Old age killed him.

[servo1969]

Um, he’s 82.

I hope I make it to 82. I doubt I will.

[Cementjungle]

"I quit smoking 30 yrs ago..."

Doesn't offer much comfort to those considering quitting.

i wonder how much breathing Los Angeles air for 50+ years had to do with his breathing issues.