Lou Rawls is battling lung cancer

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Lou Rawls is battling lung cancer
Wife suggests condition dire; singer is seeking to annul his 2-year marriage



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10492861/

LOS ANGELES - Singer Lou Rawls is being treated for lung cancer, and his estranged wife said he also has brain cancer and suggested his condition is dire.

“Don’t count me out, brother,” Rawls said Thursday night from his room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. “There’s been many people who have been diagnosed with this kind of thing, and they’re still jumpin’ and pumpin’.”

Rawls, in the interview with the Arizona Republic, said he has received alternative and traditional medical treatments for lung cancer. He said he quit his regular smoking habit 35 years ago.

The lung cancer was diagnosed a year ago and the brain cancer in May, his estranged wife, Nina, said during a marriage annulment hearing Thursday in Arizona.

[DS1]

1. He quit 35 years ago?

And still got it?

If that's not a warning sign to smokers, I don't know what is.

[hickman1937]

3. What kind of warning is that?

Don't start maybe, but for those of us who smoke, why quit?

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I knew someone who quit that long ago....

and still died of lung cancer.

Happily, Chicago just banned smoking in restaurants. It takes effect January 16. Smokers I know are pissed off that they don't have one year to phase it in. Damn city council has only been considering it for a couple of years. It is about damn time.

[tiddlywinks]

5. It's either that or variant CJD

Might as well enjoy the ride.

Ooops, this is Hardhead, btw, on my SO's account on account of I'm lazy.

[DS1]

7. Right on HH!

:hi:

[mac56]

2. Very sad.

He has one of the great voices in pop music. Rich and smooth, yet soulful.

[MarianJack]

6. Great Guy!

So sad!

"...You'll never find.......Another love like MINE...."