- Allen Carr
Allen Carr was most notable as the author of books on how to stop smoking (having given up after 31 years as a five-pack-per-day chain smoker) and, as he stressed, escape nicotine addiction.
- Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease.
- Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords.
- Dave Allen
David Tynan O'Mahoney (July 6, 1936 - March 10, 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, popular in the United Kingdom and Australia in the 1960s and 1970s. His act was typified by a very relaxed, intimate style - he would sit on a chair, smoking and holding a glass of whiskey. Alleged to be an atheist, he would often make jokes about religion, particularly the Catholic Church and the Church of England.
- Chastity Bono
Chastity Sun Bono (born March 4, 1969) is an American gay rights activist and occasional actress. She is also known as the daughter of entertainers Sonny and Cher and the half sister of musician Elijah Blue Allman.
- Patrick Reynolds
Patrick Reynolds (born December 2, 1954, in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American anti-smoking activist and former actor. He is the grandson of the tobacco company founder, R.J. Reynolds, and speaks of how he believes his family business has killed millions, including his own father and brother.
- Jack Wild
Jack Wild (30 September 1952 - 2 March 2006) was an English actor who achieved fame for his roles in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical "Oliver!". For the latter performance (playing the Artful Dodger), he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16, but the Oscar went to Jack Albertson for his performance in "The Subject was Roses".
- Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy, born October 9, 1956, is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 16th district, which is composed of Bedford County, Moore County, and part of Rutherford County. He is currently the Assistant Floor Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus, the Vice-Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, the Secretary of the Senate Education Committee, and a member of the Senate Government Operations Committee.
- Alton Ochsner
Alton Ochsner (May 4, 1896 - September 6, 1981) was a surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established his own world-renowned The Ochsner Clinic. Reared in a small South Dakota town, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of southern medicine. He was recruited to Tulane from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Jack Buck
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 - June 18, 2002), born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987, and is honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Buck was recognizable by his deep, gravelly voice, penchant for sardonic irony, and his distinctive play-by-play calls.
- Barb Tarbox
Barb Tarbox (April 10 1961 - May 18 2003) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada; a life-long 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. During the last months of Tarbox's life she went around Canada teaching young adults the consequences of smoking.
- Bill Stone
William "Bill" Stone (born 23 September, 1900 in Ledstone, Devon, England) is one of the few surviving British veterans of the First World War. He is the last known veteran living in Britain to have served in both the First and the Second World War. Stone was one of fourteen children and enlisted into the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday, and went on to serve both as a Stoker aboard the battlecruiser HMS "Tiger".
- Victor French
Victor French (December 4, 1934 - June 15, 1989) was an American actor. Born in Santa Barbara, California, French costarred on the television series, "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1977, 1981-1983, 1984) as Isaiah Edwards and "Highway to Heaven" (1984-1989) as Mark Gordon. He also starred in "Carter Country". He played the recurring character "Agent 44" in the series "Get Smart!" in 1965-1966, …
- Ann Savage
Ann Savage (born February 19, 1921 in Columbia, South Carolina as Bernice Maxine Lyon) was a motion picture actress for over forty years who is mainly remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in "Detour" and other Hollywood B-movies and film noirs of the 1940s. Savage and Detour co-star Tom Neal made 5 movies together. Savage left the movie business in the early 1950s. She returned to acting brefly in the 1986 film "Fire with Fire".
- Harvey Skinner
Harvey Skinner is the inaugural Dean of the new Faculty of Health at York University, beginning September 1, 2006. Previously Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Skinner was one of the first to focus on linking behavior change, organizational improvement and information technology (e-health), which are summarized in his book, …
- Bun E. Carlos
Bun E. Carlos (born Brad Carlson, June 12, 1951 in Rockford, Illinois) is the drummer for American rock band Cheap Trick. He is the band's chief setlister and archivist, and maintains recordings of all the band's shows, some of which have been released under the name 'Bun E's Bootlegs'. The name "Bun" comes from a sign the family would pass on their yearly trip to Florida. Bun E.'s family includes Kurt Carlson, a member of the hijacked plane (Flight 847) in 1985.
- Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus (born February 19, 1935 in Princeton, Indiana) is an American sportscaster. He has been the lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners since their inaugural season. Niehaus graduated from Indiana University in 1957, entered the military, and began his broadcasting career with Armed Forces Radio. He became a partner of Dick Enberg on the broadcast team of the California Angels in 1969.
- Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher (born August 18, 1935 in Orange, New Jersey; died December 2, 2000 in Culver City, California) was an African American actress, best known for her role as secretary "Peggy Fair" on the television detective series "Mannix", which she played from 1968 through 1975. In 1970, Fisher became the first black performer to win an Emmy Award when she won the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
- Cesare Correnti
Cesare Correnti (January 3, 1815 -October 4, 1888), was an Italian revolutionary and politician. He was born at Milan of a poor but noble family. While employed in the public debt administration, he flooded Lombardy with revolutionary pamphlets designed to excite hatred against the Austrians, and in 1848 proposed the general abstention of the Milanese from smoking, which gave rise to the insurrection known as the Five Days.
- T. Casey Brennan
Terrance Casey Brennan (August 11, 1948) is an American comic book writer and memoirist. During the 1970s, he wrote for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics anthologies "Creepy" and "Eerie", and "Vampirella". He also wrote for DC Comics' "House of Mystery" and Archie Comics' "Red Circle Sorcery". In the 1980s, Brennan campaigned to have depictions of smoking in comics banned, which led then-Gov.
- Jessica Garlick
Jessica Garlick (born 1981) is a British singer from Kidwelly, Wales. Garlick made her first steps into showbusiness when she was 16. At that age she won the Welsh final of the TV talent show "Star For A Night". The same year she also featured at Michael Barrymore's "My Kind of Music".
- James P. Tucker Jr.
James P. (Jim or Big Jim) Tucker, Jr. is a journalist who, since the 1970s, has focused on exposing the controversial Bilderberg Group. A former sportswriter, he started writing for the controversial, now-defunct newspaper, "The Spotlight". "The Spotlight" was often accused of being anti-Semitic due primarily to it being founded and owned by Willis Carto.
- David C. Rowe
David C. Rowe was an American psychology professor known for his work studying genetic and environmental influences on adolescent onset behaviors such as delinquency and smoking. Rowe earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the "Wall Street Journal", …
- Diane Deans
Diane Deans (b. 1958) is a member of Ottawa City Council, representing Ward 10 Gloucester-Southgate in the city's south-east. A graduate of the University of Guelph she was active in the Canadian Federation of Students. Deans was first elected to Ottawa city council in 1994. When Ottawa and its surrounding municipalities were amalgamated in 2000, she faced a tough election against a fellow City Councillor and the chair of the Ottawa Board of Trade.
- Eliezer Waldenberg
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (December 10 1915 -November 21 2006) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise "Tzitz Eliezer" that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including medical halacha, as well as more common halachic issues from Shabbat to kashrut. He was born in Jerusalem in 1915 and died there on November 21, 2006.
- Joshua Pusey
Joshua Pusey (March 27, 1842 - May 8, 1906 (?)), was an American inventor and a prominent attorney. Pusey was a Pennsylvanian attorney who was fond of smoking cigars. Fed up with carrying bulky boxes of wooden matches, he set to work to invent paper matches that would be lighter and smaller. His final design had matches secured to a thin paper wrapping with an attached striking surface.
- Cheyenne Brando
Tarita Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of the multi-Oscar-winning American actor Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipia, a Tahitian whom he met while filming "Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1962. Born in Tahiti in 1970, 11 years after her brother Christian Brando, Cheyenne was raised by her mother Tarita on the Pacific island of Tahiti, south of Papeete. She began to suffer from bouts of mental illness from the age of 16, when she also started using drugs, …
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1730s - August 28, 1818) was the first known settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored by historians, partly because he was a Haitian and not fully white, and partly because the early histories were written by the friends and descendants of John Kinzie, to whom du Sable sold his house in 1800. Little is known for sure about du Sable's early life.
- Rita Kalmbach
Rita Kalmbach was the first mayor of Norfolk County and the wife of tobacco farmer Emil Kalmbach. She was first elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2003 after defeating 21-year-old political neopyhte Brian Decker by a wide margin. Her current term expired in 2007. During her tenure as mayor, she prevented the municipality from passing a county-wide smoking ban.
- Mel Brieseman
Mel Brieseman is a New Zealand public health official, surgeon, obstetrician and former missionary to India. Brieseman was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and after completing his primary and secondary schooling in Taranaki left for Otago University to study medicine. There he met his wife, who was secretary to a professor of microbiology, and after marrying and graduating returned with her to Taranaki, taking up a house surgeon job in New Plymouth.
- Bill Saluga
Bill Saluga is an American comedian.
- Puig Aubert
Puig Aubert, was debatably the greatest French rugby league player of all-time Over a sixteen year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, Les Catalans, Celtic de Paris and Castelnaudary winning five French championships and four French cups along with representing the French national side on a total of forty-six occasions.
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, was a French poet and tragedian. He was born at Dijon, where his father, Melchior Jolyot, was notary-royal. Having been educated at the Jesuit school in the town, and afterwards at the Collège Mazarin, he became an advocate, and was placed in the office of a lawyer named Prieur at Paris. With the encouragement of his master, son of an old friend of Scarron's, he produced a "Mort des enfants de Brutus", …
- Phrarajbhavanavisudh
Phrarajbhavanavisudh succeeded in influencing millions of people both within Thailand and worldwide to practice meditation, a fundamental basis of true peace and eternal peace. He has also succeeded to encourage Thais to quit drinking and smoking through the activities of Anti-Drinking and Anti-Smoking program with is widely accepted nationwide and is being expanded throughout the world.
- Benito Martínez
Benito Martínez Abrogán was a native of Cuba who claimed to be the world's oldest living person. He claimed to have been born on June 19 1880, near Cavaellon, Haiti; however, he had no documents to verify this and was thus never an officially eligible candidate for this record. The Cuban government sent officials to Haiti to investigate, but found nothing to either prove or disprove the claim.
- Astrid Benöhr
Astrid Benöhr is a German endurance athlete, multiple world champion and world record holder in various multiple Ironman (also known as "ultra-triathlon") disciplines. Her 1997 world record in the quintuple ironman (about 74 hours for some 19 km swimming, 900 km bicycling, 210 km running) is more than 2 hours less than the men's world record; her 1999 world record in the deca (tenfold) ironman (about 187 hours for 38 km swimming, 1800 km bicycling, …
- Rajko Igić
Rajko Igić is a Serbian doctor and scientist. He is best known for his anti-smoking campaign in the Former Yugoslavia and experimental work on the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). Igić received his M.D. at the University of Belgrade and Ph.D. at the University of Sarajevo. Igić was a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Tuzla (1978-1992) and the Director of the Department of Scientific, Cultural, …
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- Malcolm Lawrence
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- Aaron Pickard
I just graduated from the University of Wyoming--got my B.S. in computer science. I recently moved to Missouri to live with my Dad for a while and wound up taking a programmer/analyst position in Springfield, Missouri at O'Reilly Auto Parts.Oh, and I'm a spock addict. Can't stop the tagging! THE CAKE IS A LIE!