Last week on CoolTV I saw an older interview with the late Ray Charles. I was very dismayed to see that, like many other musicians, he was a smoker.
I now suspect the cigarettes may have contributed to his death.
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Ray Charles lived to be a ripe old age. Smoking didn’t have anything to do with it, Nobody lives forever. What a dumb azz comment. Not that smoking isn’t bad for your health but that isn’t what contributed to his death ???
No need to be insulting. After seeing his biopic Ray I learned that he was a heroine addict in the past. Many (not all, but many) change to cigarettes if they quit, some before. It’s just a matter of changing from one set of poisons to another.
Brother Ray died of liver failure from liver disease. The heroine likely started it; the cigarettes likely made it far worse.
- Oh, and 70-something is not a ripe old age. Some live into their 80s. My mom has friends in their 80s and 90s. One of my friends lived to 87. One of my neighbors (a wonder, granted) lived until a month before his 104th. It’ll never be enough for those left behind, but 70s is too soon.