Rockers who contracted Lung Cancer from Smoking?

[AliceManson]

Glenn Frey
Bowie

Neither one of these died of or even had lung cancer.

[AlexVonHaig]

I wanted to add an anecdotal story here that would objectively changed everyone's view of smoking but I lost my train of thought

[TravisBicklesMohawk]

I Love Lucy is one of my fave shows of all time and every time I see them smoking, it makes me nauseous. Given Pall Mall was one of their sponsors, they had no choice and it was the early 50s, when smoking was not known to be dangerous.

Nope, it was known in the 50s, at least to medical researchers. But Big Cig immediately and successfully went into cover-up mode that lasted many years. They're still denying it to an extent, but now they bought up all the big vape brands so they could sell it as a "healthy" alternative, then marketed them to kids (not officially, of course, but they know what they're doing) with all those 'strawberry pie' and similar flavours, to get a new generation of addicts. Utter scum.

There's a story about one of the guys who played the Marlboro Man in the 70s being on set and realising none of the big company execs were smoking. Because they knew way back then what shit they were selling and what it would do to them.

The show Mad Men covered this very subject.
America has always been greedy even when it comes to the safety of its people.