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TwoInchQuad:
--- Quote from: chris319 on December 15, 2023, 07:26:22 AM ---Has anyone else noticed that on IGAS Garry always seems to have a lit cigarette in his hand? Always. He's very adroit at changing hands when he needs to. I imagine he took puffs when he was not on camera.
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He looks to have been pretty badly hooked. During the 1970s "Nothing But the Truth" documentary about the Moore-era TTTT, Garry's puffing away during the breaks in taping.
- Kevin
BillCullen1:
From someone who attended TTTT tapings in the 70s. Moore definitely smoked during the commercial breaks. This eventually caught up with him and forced his retirement.
Casey Buck:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on December 15, 2023, 08:11:14 PM ---From someone who attended TTTT tapings in the 70s. Moore definitely smoked during the commercial breaks. This eventually caught up with him and forced his retirement.
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That's how he got a "no-no" in his throat.
calliaume:
--- Quote from: TwoInchQuad on December 15, 2023, 06:36:41 PM ---He looks to have been pretty badly hooked. During the 1970s "Nothing But the Truth" documentary about the Moore-era TTTT, Garry's puffing away during the breaks in taping.
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This couldn't have been uncommon in the 1970s. There used to be a Match Game website with nothing but screen grabs of the celebs caught smoking on camera.
When I interned at CNN in 1983, anchorman Bernard Shaw would smoke when he wasn't on camera. He was very good, however, about making sure the cigarette was stubbed out before he went back on (during Prime News, he anchored solo from Washington with two anchors from Atlanta). Shaw's death last year at 82 was due to pneumonia, and apparently not related to smoking.
A few years later, I remember seeing an episode of World News Tonight with a technical malfunction during a taped report; when they returned to Peter Jennings unexpectedly, after a few seconds, smoke was visibly wafting into the shot. Jennings moved to stub out the cigarette, which most viewers probably didn't notice.
The good news is the percentage of smokers has crept steadily downward since it was determined smoking tobacco causes lung cancer; the percentage of adults who smoke today is a bit less than 1/3 of those who did in the mid-1960s.
https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-tobacco-trends
chris319:
The late Fred Wostbrock died of lung cancer but didn't smoke AFAIK.
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