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



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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