Posted on 02/14/2009 11:27:16 AM PST by lewisglad
Patrick Swayze cut a gaunt figure when he was spotted in public for the first time in weeks. The actor, who is fighting pancreatic cancer, looked gaunt and frail as he defiantly smoked a cigarette while waiting for wife Lisa Niemi in Beverly Hills.
Once famed for his athletic body and steamy routines in the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing, the actor now looks a shadow of his former self.
The 56-year-old smoked several cigarettes in under 10 minutes, according to onlookers, puffing big clouds of smoke out of the truck.'He was puffing away and appeared as if he didn't have a care in the world. It's so sad,' said one.
Reports from the US suggest that he has stopped treatment for the cancer, including chemotherapy, after experiencing extreme side-effects such as excruciating dental pain making it impossible to chew food.
The actor blows a plume of smoke out the window of his car, smoking several cigarettes in just 10 minutes
He is believed to have undergone dental surgery to repair his damaged gums and save his teeth.
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I’m sorry, but these Paparazzi Parasites need to leave the poor guy alone.
I had the opportunity to meet him a few years back, and he’s a really good guy, down to earth, friendly, and has seemingly avoided the arrogance that sometimes infects most people in the public eye.
He’s a better man than me, if it was me getting chased around like that, I’d be inclined to use the top of one of those Parasite’s heads as a friggin ashtray.
That, or their camera lens would be prepped for a close up of the Parasite’s colon!
Smoke em if you got em Pat!
How about all those AIDS “patients” .... who are doing UNHEALTHY things????? Hey, Hollywood....
How is he still working if he is this sick?
God Speed, sir
Here, here!!
So why don’t they talk about Obama’s habit.
The series was filmed last summer.
Well said. The reaper comes for us all eventually...
They are spinning his cancer as it was his fault because he defiantly smoked.
Many people of all walks of life come down with this insidious cancer.
http://www.ash.org.uk/ash_qed39y47.htm
“Ronald M. Davis, M.D., immediate past president of the American Medical Association and a relentless anti-tobacco advocate, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 52.”
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This didn’t make the news.
When my brother was in the hospital with pancreatic cancer,
his doctor allowed him to smoke in his room whenever
he wanted and let his wife
give him a martini every afternoon. This was his oncologist
and he said smoking and drinking
wouldn’t do any more harm. He should do what made him comfortable.
My brother died in June of 1990.
I”m so sorry he is so ill - I hope he isn’t suffering.
Why did they mention twice that he smoked several ciggies in ten minutes.
Well let’s put it this way: if you have a family or personal history of cancer it’s not exactly smart to smoke. Your typical cigarette produces on average about 19 carcinogen by-products and gasses in the smoke.
Well I just pray he finds peace with God and people let him go that way - poor bloke.
Mel
Why are they talking about ANYONE smoking?!?! I don’t frankly care who it is.
It’s friggin legal, Non-smokers who like to stress out about what smokers are doing need to get a life, and STFU!
Don’t like smoking, DON’T DO IT, then back the Hell off.
The man is dying, dares to smoke a few cigarettes in public, and our voyeur media turn oddly prissy and Victorian.
The same people blame churchgoers and Reagan for AIDS.
Do they all have some sort of brain parasite?
“I don’t smoke and can’t stand cigarette smoke but he’s basically living under a death sentence right now. If he wants to chain smoke 24X7 and it gives him a little pleasure, that’s his business.”
I feel the same way. When Dad was dying of lung cancer 3 years ago, my stupid, liberal brother took it upon himself to be the smoke nazi. I ripped him a new one, and told everyone involved that they were NOT to take Dad’s cigarettes away or hassle him about it (right in front of Dad). As a former hospice nurse, I feel that the nicotine hit did him more good than any of the antianxiety meds they were trying to shove down his throat.
He would chain smoke when my brother was around. If I was there, I lit the cigarette, he took a few drags, and saved the rest for later. He didn’t seem to need as much then. It was all up to him, and it was important that he did things his way. It was no big deal to me. That was one thing that I could do for the poor dear.
And when Mr. C comes after you, you're going to be singin’ a different tune. You'll be battlin’ for every precious minute more you can eke out of life.
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