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UTHThe following list of individuals was compiled from numerous sources including the "Cigarette Hall of Fame," a report by the Roswell Park Memorial Institution in Buffalo, New York, books, magazines, newspapers, and the internet. Please realize that it is difficult to compile such a list since information about smoking that might appear in an obituary is almost always censored.
Different sources occasionally differ in the cause of death for a person. I have assumed that all people dying of lung cancer, emphysema, aortic aneurysm, and head and neck cancers are smokers unless specifically stated in the references. Since tobacco is only one of the three major causes of heart disease, I generally only include individuals who I know smoked cigarettes and who died
of heart disease that are under the age of 60. Cigarette smoking has been shown to be much more common in heart attack patientsyounger than 60.
For other tobacco-related cancers, I have some reference that they were actually smokers.
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