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Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Oct 28 2003, 02:17 PM\'] IIRC, Orson Welles died of lung cancer, and he did a PSA which intentionally did not air until after he died, where he said plainly that his death was the result of smoking. [/quote]
 You don't recall exactly correctly.  That famous, chilling PSA was recorded by Yul Brynner shortly before his death.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 28 2003, 02:55 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Oct 28 2003, 02:17 PM\'] IIRC, Orson Welles died of lung cancer, and he did a PSA which intentionally did not air until after he died, where he said plainly that his death was the result of smoking. [/quote]
You don't recall exactly correctly.  That famous, chilling PSA was recorded by Yul Brynner shortly before his death. [/quote]
 As per IMDB, Welles and Brynner died on the same day(10/10/85), just two days before Johnny Olson died.

Brandon Brooks:
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Oct 28 2003, 01:39 PM\'] William Talman, who played Hamilton Burger, the D. A. on Perry Mason, did something similar. [/quote]
 Wow... In all honestly, that I would've scared me straight if I had seen that and if I had smoked.

Brandon Brooks

rugrats1:
Foe the Yul Brynner ad, which was for the Cancer Society, it started with an announcer saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen -- Mr. Yul Brynner", over a black screen saying "Yul Brynner, ????-1985" (sorry, don't know his birth year). This is followed by an interview clip from "Good Morning America" (I think), in which Yul tells of the evils of smoking, with him saying "Don't smoke" at the end.

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