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Date Posted: 15:08:21 11/13/13 Wed
Author: Al Capone
Author Host/IP: 167.102.33.18
Subject: Don't forget about me,. I died from syphilis
In reply to: gg 's message, "Re: What does "liver disease" mean?" on 15:01:34 11/13/13 Wed

>>>did he have liver cancer, or did he drink himself to
>>>death? Or something else? Privacy and all that is
>>>important, but IF a guy has killed himself by
>personal
>>>abuse, I think his last gesture should be to let the
>>>world know.
>>>
>>>One of the most effective commercials in the early
>>>days of the war on smoking tobacco, was the guy who
>>>played the losing prosecutor on Perry Mason, a very
>>>highly rated show. He bemoaned the early loss of his
>>>family just before he died from lung cancer. And
>>>almost everyone in America knew his face.
>>>
>>>I'm not saying this applies to Todd, cause we don't
>>>know. The article doesn't really say. It covers up
>>>more than it says. If he had a deteriorating liver
>>>disease that was not self-inflicted, SAY IT! What
>are
>>>your protecting? You're dead.
>>>
>>>I'm getting kinda tired of famous guys who have
>>>something to teach when they die, but choose to take
>>>their secrets to the grave instead. Not a very noble
>>>choice.
>>
>>Edgar Allen Poe died from syphilis, but there was no
>>run on condoms. Few people seem to learn from other
>>people's mistakes.
>
>I did not know that about EAP. I do know that did in
>Franz Schubert, but who else does?
>
>I think America's turn around on cigarettes proves you
>wrong. Our campaign against smoking was deliberately
>highly personal. Other nations followed our lead,
>decades later.
>To make the message stick, you gotta get it out there.
>And then reinforce it, again and again, over time.

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I may be wrong about cigarettes, but not about syphilis. -- Buc2, 15:50:42 11/13/13 Wed