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Gaunt Patrick Swayze Defiantly Chain-Smokes As He Battles Cancer
UK Daily Maill ^ | Last updated at 4:54 PM on 14th February 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: ontap

It is your problem if you don’t want to hasten your death or really want to be cured.

Even herbal cigarettes produce carcinogen gasses.


41 posted on 02/14/2009 11:46:35 AM PST by deannadurbin
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To: lewisglad
The death rate remains the same at one per person. My wife's grandfather was in his mid-eighties when he was put in a nursing home. They made him quit smoking. A friend of mine got prostate cancer when he was fifty. The doctors ordered him to quit smoking. I watched him die a piece at a time. For the last few months, he was on a colostomy bag and morphine drip. I sneaked him cigarettes, and we would go for walks out on the hospital court yard where he would smoke them.

They told him they would take the colostomy bag off when he recovered enough. I knew it was a lie. Not sure if he did.

He spent about $50,000 of his retirement on some quack remedy.

One thing about death; when it's six blocks away and one block over, most people don't fear death. When he's tapping on your shoulder, he's one big SOB.

42 posted on 02/14/2009 11:48:28 AM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: lewisglad

Yeah! And he better stay away from fatty foods and too much sugar too! That’ll kill ya! /s


43 posted on 02/14/2009 11:49:10 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Eagles6
Why can’t these parasites let the guy die in peace?

Because they actually are parasites... they feed off him, and will continue after his life has ended, just like parasites do.

44 posted on 02/14/2009 11:49:42 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: lewisglad

This man should be let be. He is suffering a serious life threatening disease which is going to cut his life short. He is a talented actor and a couragous one at that to have finished his project during this illness. No doubt this gave him the energy and will to fight on despite all of this. No one deserves to have pictures of them at their worst splashed across the social or gossip or front pages of papers.
I wish PS peace and strength.


45 posted on 02/14/2009 11:51:03 AM PST by celtic gal (I think the democRATs should change their logo from a jackass to a RAT with a long tail.)
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To: deannadurbin

So you’re saying that he’ll recover from pancreatic cancer if he quits smoking, Doctor?


46 posted on 02/14/2009 11:51:11 AM PST by Lord_Baltar
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To: deannadurbin

I knew a guy who was a scientist and biology professor. He claimed his family carried the gene to protect them from lung cancer and that he tested himself and that he carried the same gene. He smoked a couple packs a day. He died from lung cancer in his mid 50s. So much for carrying the right gene.


47 posted on 02/14/2009 11:51:32 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: lewisglad

When you die of cancer, you really die of malnutrition ‘cause you can’t eat. Smoking probably helps with the nausea that is common to his condition. Cancer sucks.


48 posted on 02/14/2009 11:51:49 AM PST by chalkfarmer
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To: lewisglad

Hey, I’m fine with a dying man using heroin if that gives him a little comfort as the end rapidly approaches.


49 posted on 02/14/2009 11:52:38 AM PST by fso301
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To: jwalsh07

It’s the same mentality that denies the pain-ridden terminally ill medicine for relief on the theory they will get *hooked on painkillers* — SO??!!


50 posted on 02/14/2009 11:52:42 AM PST by MozarkDawg
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To: SwatTeam

That was sensible and compassionate and practical.


51 posted on 02/14/2009 11:53:48 AM PST by unkus
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To: deannadurbin

“Your typical cigarette produces on average about 19 carcinogen by-products and gasses in the smoke”
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Your typical Thanksgiving Meal produces carcinogens too ;)
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/10647/Chemicals_in_Your_Thanksgiving_Dinner.html

Enjoy!


52 posted on 02/14/2009 11:53:54 AM PST by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: lewisglad

Nanny-stater liberals love it when smokers die of cancer. They can smugly nod with the satisfaction that they somehow deserved that wasting death.


53 posted on 02/14/2009 11:53:59 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: lewisglad

If it were me I would have a butt in one hand and a beer in the other with middle finger up for the pictures.


54 posted on 02/14/2009 11:54:19 AM PST by bikerman
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To: libertarian27

I don’t think that quitting smoking at this point in his life would aid his recovery.


55 posted on 02/14/2009 11:54:57 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: deannadurbin

Nobody is saying smoking is good for you. But the surgen general has reported that 9 out of 10 people between the ages of 18 and 120 find it amazingly annoying when someone feels that they are on a mission from God to tell the world that your typical cigarette produces on average about 19 carcinogen by-products and gasses in the smoke.

That is an interesting fact though. I mean 20 carcinogen by-products is my limit. It’s a good thing it only has 19.


56 posted on 02/14/2009 11:55:03 AM PST by Free Descendant (Palin Power!)
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To: libertarian27

Fortunately Thanksgiving dinners rarely kill, but cigarettes do. Enjoy!


57 posted on 02/14/2009 11:55:55 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Kirkwood

Well, apparently, Peanut Butter will kill too....


58 posted on 02/14/2009 11:57:39 AM PST by Lord_Baltar
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To: Lord_Baltar

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.
_______________________________________

Right on. A bunch of pious jerks out there. Nothing worse than a smug anti smoker. They can KMA.


59 posted on 02/14/2009 11:57:55 AM PST by unkus
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To: libertarian27

Some of us don’t eat meat either. :)


60 posted on 02/14/2009 11:58:58 AM PST by deannadurbin
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