Wonder why both Pyne and Downey left us “ before their time?
I assumed it was common knowledge. Maybe not. Both Pyne and Downey were chain smokers. Both died of lung cancer, although Pyne was much younger at the time of his death. I think Pyne was in his forties and Downey was in his sixties.
Tom Snyder was another talker who was taken down by smoking. Seems to go with the territory.