Re: [F_MINOR] Was Glenn Gould really a chain smoker?!?

[Neil <neil@THUMP.ORG>]

Robert Merkin wrote:

> He worried obsessively about his health ... and as a consequence, took
> so many over-the-counter pills that he pretty much destroyed his
> health. Death at 50 is usually an indication of poor health habits.
>
> /"When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for ten years." -- Victor Borge/
>
> But chainsmoking ... that's also news to me.

He didn't smoke. Pills, no excercise, an awful diet and hereditary heart
condition killed him. Not unlike many North Americans - everyone one of
whom on Judge Judy is obese. Hum.

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