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A lifelong chain smoker, she died of pancreatic cancer in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris next to her second husband.

Capp, a lifelong chain smoker, died from emphysema two years later at age 70, at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire on November 5, 1979.

He became a lifelong tobacco smoker in his youth, and he enjoyed strongly flavored meals, fine wine, and spirited conversation.

Barb Tarbox, MSM ( April 10, 1961 – May 18, 2003 ) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada ; a lifelong smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness, its cause and its consequences, propelled her to the Canadian national stage.

Croatto, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed on March 2005 with lung and brain cancer.

Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker, died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002, never having read The Old Man and the Sea.

Sabo was a lifelong smoker until he quit in 2003.

A lifelong pipe smoker, Peter Tinniswood died of throat cancer, at the age of 67.

Like his parents, Laura who died at 57 and Evelyn who died at 62, Auberon Waugh, a lifelong smoker, succumbed relatively young: to heart disease at the age of 61.

A lifelong smoker, Nye had arterial disease ; the arteries in his legs were surgically replaced with plastic arteries, then state-of-the-art.

A lifelong heavy smoker, Stapleton died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2006 at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.

A lifelong smoker, Colvig was one of the pioneers in advocating warning labels about cancer risk on cigarette packages in the United States.

A lifelong smoker, Giorgio Gaber died after a long battle with cancer, on 1 January 2003 in his country house in Montemagno near Camaiore ( Lucca, Tuscany ).

A lifelong smoker, he died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

A lifelong smoker, McLean started suffering from emphysema in 1985, and had a tumor removed in 1994.

Swarthout died in his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 23, 1992 from emphysema ( he was a lifelong smoker ).

His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s, the book for the 1975 musical The Card, Budgie, Worzel Gummidge, and Andy Capp ( an adaptation of the comic strip ).

She died in 1995 at the age of 82 following a stroke in Shrewsbury, her lifelong home.

Pears, Britten's lifelong partner, also died in Aldeburgh in 1986.

Fenwick was the lifelong home to actress Katharine Hepburn until she died on June 29, 2003 at the age of 96.

Robert Neathery, a lifelong resident of West Plains who died at the age of 96 in 2003, wrote in his 1994 book, West Plains as I Knew It, that a truck full of dynamite parked in the garage below might have caused the explosion.

Her father was a geography teacher, polytechnic administrator and lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, who died when Whiteread was studying at art school in 1989.

The film was never completed because another actor in the movie, a lifelong friend with whom he had attended school, died halfway through filming.

He died at Bournemouth and was succeeded in the episcopate by Westcott, his schoolfellow and lifelong friend.

He was condemned first to be broken on the wheel and then beheaded ; but, reprieved on the scaffold, his sentence was commuted to lifelong banishment, with his whole family, to Berezov in Siberia, where he died six years later, in 1747.

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for smoking and drinking.

He died on 22 January 1922, aged 83, in Sidmouth, Devon, on the last of his lifelong travels.

Hull died in Washington, D. C., after a lifelong struggle with familial remitting-relapsing sarcoidosis ( often confused with tuberculosis ) and is buried in the vault of the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea in the Washington National Cathedral.

Since 2002, he has written the column at Eppie Lederer's desk, which he, a " lifelong fan " of her Ann Landers column, bought at auction after the noted advice columnist died.

He had personal eccentricities as well, which were made worse by his lifelong ill health ( he died of tuberculosis ), his heavy drinking, and his occasional use of opium.

Many patients, including Wright, suffered brain damage and lifelong after-effects, while others died as a result of the treatments.

A lifelong asthmatic, Caddel died of leukaemia on 1 April 2003.

Aberhart died in 1943, and was succeeded as Premier by his student at the Prophetic Bible Institute and lifelong close disciple, Ernest C. Manning ( 1908 – 1996 ).

Elmer Flick died in his lifelong hometown of Bedford at age 94.

Conn's mother Mary died in 1906, and Smythe attributes his mother's drinking with making him a lifelong abstainer of alcohol.

* Dorothy Trimble Tiffany ( 1891 – 1979 ), who, as Dorothy Burlingham, later became a noted psychoanalyst and lifelong friend and partner of Anna Freud.

The parsonage, a bequest gift from a lifelong member, was dedicated in 1979.

Two leaders from the opposing parties, the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, charged that after a December 1979 meeting between the two, the Governor, then considered as a lifelong Republican, began campaigning to deliver the 41 Democratic Party convention votes of the island for President Jimmy Carter ’ s ( D ) nomination for the presidency ( ironically, Carter ’ s opponent for the nomination was Senator Kennedy ).

As further controversy fuelled, his public live performances continued with an even increasing demand but with age ( now he was 60 ) and a declining voice and his lifelong affliction of the asthma, he withdrew from public appearance, venting his anguish and frustrations in his autobiographical reflections: Bratyo Janer Rudhha Sangit ( or The Stifled Music of an Untouchable ), published in 1979, a year before his death on August 18, 1980.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

* Making money from emerging markets: she claims an increasing acceptance from the population of the value of lifelong learning, beyond the normal schooling age, and that institutions can benefit financially from this by adopting distance education.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

The Lacedaemonian citizens ( Sparta ) were renowned for their lifelong combat training and almost mythical military prowess, while their greatest adversaries, the Athenians, were exempted from service only after the 60th year of their lives.

In that year, he resigned from the position of Archdruid but retained the lifelong title of ADF Archdruid Emeritus.

This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.

Thus, at age 22 he began a lifelong career in government, except for a stint in journalism from 1870-78.

A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.

Thanks to Schwitters ' lifelong patron and friend Katherine Dreier, his work was exhibited regularly in the US from 1920 onwards.

He studied composition at the Munich Academy in the 1920s with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later he received enormous intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship.

She began a lifelong companionship with her cameraman Horst Kettner, who was 40 years her junior and assisted her with the photographs ; they were together from the time she was 60 and he was 20.

The primary sense of literacy still represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

Smith is a lifelong fan of Rolls Royce cars, buying his first Silver Shadow at Brighton Racecourse from an advert in Sporting Life for £ 5, 000.

In vertebrates, landmarks of embryonic neural development include the birth and differentiation of neurons from stem cell precursors, the migration of immature neurons from their birthplaces in the embryo to their final positions, outgrowth of axons from neurons and guidance of the motile growth cone through the embryo towards postsynaptic partners, the generation of synapses between these axons and their postsynaptic partners, and finally the lifelong changes in synapses which are thought to underlie learning and memory.

Washington in particular maintained a lifelong pattern of church membership and attendance, and there is conflicting testimony from those who knew him.