On his Twitter account he writes: "I quit smoking thirty years ago but it was already too late". He adds that he was diagnosed already then, and he lives with the disease, but finds it difficult to walk long distances
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After the paparazzi photographed the "Star Trek" star Leonard Nimoy this week (Go here to see the image, for copyright reasons ) when he was driven through an airport in a wheelchair while breathing from an oxygen mask, his fans began to worry about his health.
After the uproar caused by the photo on the Internet, Nimoi entered theHis Twitter account to explain the reason for the photo and urged his fans to stop smoking before irreparable damage is done to their respiratory system. "I stopped smoking thirty years ago but it was already too late." He adds that he was diagnosed already then, and he lives with the disease, but finds it difficult to walk long distances.
Nimoy's comments appeared exactly in the week when the issue is being discussed in the US following the decision of the pharmacy chain CVS to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in thousands of its branches. While senior officials in the health industry and even President Barack Obama praised the chain for the initiative, the tobacco industry people and their defenders who claim a 'free market' oppose this and call on the company to consider its customers.
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Yeruham is wrong and admits 🙂
Not reading..happening
I apologize. Reading it for a second, I realized that the trigger was the paparazzi photo that caused a stir.
Why didn't he "encourage" his fans to stop smoking when he was diagnosed?
right now? Has anything changed?
You haven't finished reading the subtitle yet and you're already commenting? What do you come from Temka?
"...he adds that he was diagnosed already then, and he lives with the disease, but has difficulty walking long distances..."
He's been sick with it for a long time...it's a disease that calls out to smokers and there's enough accumulated damage for it to happen.
Think that 30 years ago it was already 1984 and even then there were at least 20 years of smoking after it .. that's a lot of damage and the last time I saw someone who claims that he only smokes a cigarette a day cause such cumulative damage.
Why now if he stopped smoking 30 years ago?