This A list mostly movie actor who has been in a bunch of the biggest movies of all time and has a record that probably will not be broken for some time has lung cancer from years of smoking.
That's what I thought to myself. And his voice still sounds strong(resonant) in recent interviews, commercials. So what I'm saying I guess is I hope this is not true or accurate
Lung cancer took my Mother n Law 12 years ago. Since, he's still working, is his cancer large or small cell? Large cell is terminal; small cell is curable.
Damn! I hope Enty is wrong as hell....my sister died of lung cancer but she lived without treatment (her call as nurse) for 8 years. It wasn't even until the last year it got visibly rough. She smoked up until a week before she died. I quit at her insistence.
So . . . although I understand it is socially acceptable to try to lay the blame on the medical community for not "having found a cure", isn't the cure actually NOT SMOKING?
I guess I have difficulty mustering sympathy when people bring diseases on themselves.
Medical professional here to say you can get cancers/ diseases from being completely healthy. It does not matter if you are a vegan non everything we all get sick and die and its random. People like to delude themselves that there must be a cause. We are surrounded by carcinogens everywhere. And I have had patients who smoked, were alcoholics/ drug addicts, ate bacon daily and lived to be 90's. Why do you think all the children and babies get cancer/diseases? Not anyone's fault as they don't smoke and drink vodka in sippy cups. Enjoy ever day people!
There is a very proven link between smoking and lung cancer.
If someone is doing everything they can, I'm right there in the trenches with them. If someone is doing something clearly harmful, I just don't have the energy to muster sympathy for them at all.
But it is good you are there for them to help them through!!! Keep up the good work.
No. Not Trapper John from M*A*S*H? Hawkeye must be sad today. Best thing about MASH was that it was actually about Vietnam and pretended to be about Korea.
Thanks. I agree that people should take care of themselves. My fiancee quit smoking by weaning to vape then lozenges and I am grateful. My mom died from acute myeloid leukemia and she smoked off and on. I don't think it is helpful for people to feel shame or that they caused it. It makes people feel better to think that they can control sickness and death but in actuality it is cruel and random how we get sick and die. Also you cant sell drugs, supplements, equipment, or lifestyle products with random death! Lol those are the most lucrative buisnesses which would not thrive if we embraced uncontrolable death/ illnesses.
It's proven that smoking is more difficult to give up than booze or drugs. So if someone smokes enough to get hooked, they'll spend years trying to quit.
Maybe you can escape cancer if you continue to smoke but you won't escape emphysema. Smoking is a horror to quit but try holding your breath and note how much worse it is to have impaired breathing. Oxygen is a wonderful thing.
Oh, come on! It's been 50 years , FIFTY years, since the Surgeon General of the United States said smoking DID cause cancer. Samuel L. Jackson's entire lifetime! Too bad he CHOSE to smoke, and then not stop, BECAUSE IT DOES AND WILL KILL YOU. He must have never heard the famous joke either that smoking is so bad that not only will it kill YOU, but the person NEXT to you (secondhand smoke). That's why it's BANNED in every work site and has been for decades.
If cancer is ever "cured", smoking will still be toxic to your health. It's a mix of many carcinogens. The wages of sin is DEATH people, just like it says in the Bible. If you have unprotected sex, you can wind up with HIV, or other STD's. If you drink too much, death from many types of alcohol related illnesses, or if you smoke cigarettes, a host of smoking related illnesses.
Let's not forget his admittedly LONG smoking crack addiction that he put his wife thru...many yrs ago.
As a previous poster said Cancer hits anyone, I worked w/someone who never smoked a day in his life and he was an avid runner and vegan. He died of brain cancer at the age of 47. I also had a childhood friend die of cancer at the age of 12.
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Matthew 6:1-34
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Before you damn anyone with lung cancer for "bringing it on themselves" keep in mind lung cancer is also from second hand smoke like FIREPLACES, CAMPFIRES, etc. Might as well ban those too and condemn anyone for having or being near those.
The man has an addictive personality. If smoking cigs kept his off heroin for years, so be it. You don't make it to 67 on heroin. If this is true hopefully he is getting some good news from his oncologists.
The blind was reported six months ago. If Jackson had lung cancer diagnosed then, he would most likely be symptomatic now, and he probably wouldn't have been chatting on the "late show" last night (where he looked perfectly fine) nor the Howard Stern show yesterday.
If Jackson had an EARLY lung cancer then, and it was resectable, then it would have been treated, and he might be cured now.
Jade, does the term "blind item" mean anything to you?
Anyway, if indeed Jackson does have lung cancer, his odds aren't good. With treatment, even the earliest caught lung cancer patients have only about a 50-50 chance of living five years, and most don't make it nearly that long.
So if this blind is true, and Jackson really does have lung cancer, the truth should come out before too long. I wouldn't expect a public announcement, but he wouldn't be able to hide his deteriorating health indefinitely.
Jackson has been balding for decades. This isn't new, nor really a secret, though he's hid it pretty well in a number of movies with different hair styles. EG; shaved head for "Avengers", famous Jheri curl wig for "Pulp fiction", etc.
On him being healthy in commercials on TV now, well, who knows when those were filmed. Often people with lung cancer can appear healthy until nearly the end. Also, Jackson is a professional actor. . .I think he is probably capable of playing "healthy" for ten minutes for a paycheck.
That's not quite right. Although the preferred type of treatment is different, both small cell and non-small cell lung cancers are each potentially curable if caught early enough. Unfortunately, very few lung cancers (of any type) are caught early enough for curative therapy, and most people who are diagnosed with lung cancer die of it.
To answer the question, *IF* Jackson actually has lung cancer (and again, I'm skeptical), he most likely has non-small cell. The reason is that small cell cancers tend to be aggressive and grow quickly. Since this blind came out six months ago, he'd likely be noticeably unwell today if he had small cell cancer.
Samuel Jackson was born in 1948. Surgeon General warning didn't come out until 1964, when Jackson was 16 years old. So no, there was no Surgeon General warning during all of Jackson's lifetime.
Smoking is not currently banned in "every" work site. That's absurd. EG, smoking is still legal in bars in 16 US States, and yes, people still work in bars in those states. Smoking is legal outdoors in all 50 states, and again, people work outside in all 50 states.
At a State level, indoor smoking bans really started to take off in the mid 1990s, starting in CA. Most States, in fact, have NOT had smoking bans for "decades".
As to secondhand smoke, contrary to what anti-smokers would have you believe, the scientific evidence against second hand smoke being a significant contributor of cancer in non smokers is absolutely miniscule. That evidence was largely overhyped to support smoking bans. Your relative risk of getting cancer is literally higher from living in the State of NJ compared to living every day with a smoker.
Again, doesn't mean you should smoke, but you also should view with quite a degree of skepticism some of the more far-fetched claims people make about these things.
:'( I love Sam. I hope he battles through and conquers this dread disease.
ReplyDeleteF*CK CANCER
ReplyDeleteMay this year bring us some much needed cures and advances in medicine for realz
ReplyDeleteIs this why he's totally bald now? He seems pretty vibrant in all these recent commercials I see him on.
ReplyDeleteCosign.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought to myself. And his voice still sounds strong(resonant) in recent interviews, commercials. So what I'm saying I guess is I hope this is not true or accurate
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ another one already:
ReplyDeleteRIP Wayne Rogers :(
Yes, it's time.
ReplyDeleteLung cancer took my Mother n Law 12 years ago.
ReplyDeleteSince, he's still working, is his cancer large or small cell?
Large cell is terminal; small cell is curable.
Damn! I hope Enty is wrong as hell....my sister died of lung cancer but she lived without treatment (her call as nurse) for 8 years. It wasn't even until the last year it got visibly rough. She smoked up until a week before she died. I quit at her insistence.
ReplyDeleteSo is this a subtle hint?
ReplyDeleteSLJ works with a cancer awareness organization but there is no confirmation I can find that he, himself, has lung cancer.
ReplyDeleteDammit I love The Matrix
ReplyDeleteSad to hear, but I am glad these reveals are finally popping up for me
ReplyDeleteOh wow. That is very painful.
ReplyDeleteF*ck people who are too stupid and/or stubborn to quit smoking.
ReplyDeleteSo . . . although I understand it is socially acceptable to try to lay the blame on the medical community for not "having found a cure", isn't the cure actually NOT SMOKING?
ReplyDeleteI guess I have difficulty mustering sympathy when people bring diseases on themselves.
Wrong actor (Laurence Fishburne was in the Matrix movies, not SLJ).
ReplyDeleteMedical professional here to say you can get cancers/ diseases from being completely healthy. It does not matter if you are a vegan non everything we all get sick and die and its random. People like to delude themselves that there must be a cause. We are surrounded by carcinogens everywhere. And I have had patients who smoked, were alcoholics/ drug addicts, ate bacon daily and lived to be 90's. Why do you think all the children and babies get cancer/diseases? Not anyone's fault as they don't smoke and drink vodka in sippy cups. Enjoy ever day people!
ReplyDeleteSpoken like someone unclear on the concept.
ReplyDeletePoor racist asshole, he is going to die because of his bad vices.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/28/samuel-l-jackson-i-really-wanted-san-bernardino-ki/
Samuel L. Jackson: ‘I really wanted’ San Bernardino killers to be white
F word you, cancer has no colour.
Saras, but if you know it contributes, why do it?
ReplyDeleteThere is a very proven link between smoking and lung cancer.
If someone is doing everything they can, I'm right there in the trenches with them. If someone is doing something clearly harmful, I just don't have the energy to muster sympathy for them at all.
But it is good you are there for them to help them through!!! Keep up the good work.
No. Not Trapper John from M*A*S*H? Hawkeye must be sad today. Best thing about MASH was that it was actually about Vietnam and pretended to be about Korea.
ReplyDeleteWe've all known non-smokers who died of cancer and smokers who lived to 100, CoBe. Don't be such an ass.
ReplyDeleteKermit, you are one of the nastiest, most fucked up people on this site and that's really saying something.
ReplyDeleteF-word him, Miss Priss? Fuck you.
Just shut up, CoBe. No one who has had loved ones die of cancer needs to read your bullshit about this today. Happy fucking new year.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I agree that people should take care of themselves. My fiancee quit smoking by weaning to vape then lozenges and I am grateful. My mom died from acute myeloid leukemia and she smoked off and on. I don't think it is helpful for people to feel shame or that they caused it. It makes people feel better to think that they can control sickness and death but in actuality it is cruel and random how we get sick and die. Also you cant sell drugs, supplements, equipment, or lifestyle products with random death! Lol those are the most lucrative buisnesses which would not thrive if we embraced uncontrolable death/ illnesses.
ReplyDeleteI think Sunnydaze was joking about the mistake the KTLA guy made.
ReplyDeleteHe did some fine acting in Hateful Eight. He is one actor who will be missed for a very long time if he goes before he's a very old man.
It's proven that smoking is more difficult to give up than booze or drugs. So if someone smokes enough to get hooked, they'll spend years trying to quit.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can escape cancer if you continue to smoke but you won't escape emphysema. Smoking is a horror to quit but try holding your breath and note how much worse it is to have impaired breathing. Oxygen is a wonderful thing.
ReplyDeleteWow. You must be a hoot at parties, Malibu.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I hope your 2016 turns out to be better than what you have shown today.
Good luck.
Oh, come on! It's been 50 years , FIFTY years, since the Surgeon General of the United States said smoking DID cause cancer. Samuel L. Jackson's entire lifetime! Too bad he CHOSE to smoke, and then not stop, BECAUSE IT DOES AND WILL KILL YOU. He must have never heard the famous joke either that smoking is so bad that not only will it kill YOU, but the person NEXT to you (secondhand smoke). That's why it's BANNED in every work site and has been for decades.
ReplyDeleteIf cancer is ever "cured", smoking will still be toxic to your health. It's a mix of many carcinogens. The wages of sin is DEATH people, just like it says in the Bible. If you have unprotected sex, you can wind up with HIV, or other STD's. If you drink too much, death from many types of alcohol related illnesses, or if you smoke cigarettes, a host of smoking related illnesses.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget his admittedly LONG smoking crack addiction that he put his wife thru...many yrs ago.
ReplyDeleteAs a previous poster said Cancer hits anyone, I worked w/someone who never smoked a day in his life and he was an avid runner and vegan. He died of brain cancer at the age of 47. I also had a childhood friend die of cancer at the age of 12.
Oh for fuck's sake, Studio.
ReplyDeleteLuke 18:10-14
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Matthew 6:1-34
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Do you have permission from Sam on his health diagnosis?
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ReplyDeleteTotally agree Studio 54.
Before you damn anyone with lung cancer for "bringing it on themselves" keep in mind lung cancer is also from second hand smoke like FIREPLACES, CAMPFIRES, etc. Might as well ban those too and condemn anyone for having or being near those.
ReplyDeleteSLJ smokes electronic cigarettes.
ReplyDeleteThe man has an addictive personality. If smoking cigs kept his off heroin for years, so be it. You don't make it to 67 on heroin. If this is true hopefully he is getting some good news from his oncologists.
I don't buy the story.
ReplyDeleteThe blind was reported six months ago. If Jackson had lung cancer diagnosed then, he would most likely be symptomatic now, and he probably wouldn't have been chatting on the "late show" last night (where he looked perfectly fine) nor the Howard Stern show yesterday.
If Jackson had an EARLY lung cancer then, and it was resectable, then it would have been treated, and he might be cured now.
Jade, does the term "blind item" mean anything to you?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, if indeed Jackson does have lung cancer, his odds aren't good. With treatment, even the earliest caught lung cancer patients have only about a 50-50 chance of living five years, and most don't make it nearly that long.
So if this blind is true, and Jackson really does have lung cancer, the truth should come out before too long. I wouldn't expect a public announcement, but he wouldn't be able to hide his deteriorating health indefinitely.
Jackson has been balding for decades. This isn't new, nor really a secret, though he's hid it pretty well in a number of movies with different hair styles. EG; shaved head for "Avengers", famous Jheri curl wig for "Pulp fiction", etc.
ReplyDeleteOn him being healthy in commercials on TV now, well, who knows when those were filmed. Often people with lung cancer can appear healthy until nearly the end. Also, Jackson is a professional actor. . .I think he is probably capable of playing "healthy" for ten minutes for a paycheck.
That's not quite right. Although the preferred type of treatment is different, both small cell and non-small cell lung cancers are each potentially curable if caught early enough. Unfortunately, very few lung cancers (of any type) are caught early enough for curative therapy, and most people who are diagnosed with lung cancer die of it.
ReplyDeleteTo answer the question, *IF* Jackson actually has lung cancer (and again, I'm skeptical), he most likely has non-small cell. The reason is that small cell cancers tend to be aggressive and grow quickly. Since this blind came out six months ago, he'd likely be noticeably unwell today if he had small cell cancer.
A few facts for you:
ReplyDeleteSamuel Jackson was born in 1948. Surgeon General warning didn't come out until 1964, when Jackson was 16 years old. So no, there was no Surgeon General warning during all of Jackson's lifetime.
Smoking is not currently banned in "every" work site. That's absurd. EG, smoking is still legal in bars in 16 US States, and yes, people still work in bars in those states. Smoking is legal outdoors in all 50 states, and again, people work outside in all 50 states.
At a State level, indoor smoking bans really started to take off in the mid 1990s, starting in CA. Most States, in fact, have NOT had smoking bans for "decades".
As to secondhand smoke, contrary to what anti-smokers would have you believe, the scientific evidence against second hand smoke being a significant contributor of cancer in non smokers is absolutely miniscule. That evidence was largely overhyped to support smoking bans. Your relative risk of getting cancer is literally higher from living in the State of NJ compared to living every day with a smoker.
Again, doesn't mean you should smoke, but you also should view with quite a degree of skepticism some of the more far-fetched claims people make about these things.