Theme:
Smoking in Sports
Collection:
Baseball
Published:
1957
Brand:
Viceroy
Manufacturer:
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Format:
Advertisement
Tobacco Type:
Cigarette
Comments:
Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) a major league baseball player who holds the record at 18 for most world series home runs, died of liver cancer on August 13, 1995. Although this was due primarily to his struggle against alcoholism, certain studies have established smoking as another possible risk factor of liver cancer. Olympic diver and bronze medalist Zoe Ann Olsen died 14-Jul-1982 of heart failure, a condition two to four times more likely in smokers, at the age of fifty-six. Professional golfer Julius Boros, the oldest person ever to win a major golf championship, also died of heart failure on May 28, 1994. Pauline Betz is a professional tennis player in the international tennis hall of fame.
Keywords:
Athlete, Baseball, Health, Male, Throat
