Larry McIntyre was a smoker and a comedian. He said he started smoking when he was 12 years old and selling newspapers on the west side of Chicago. He smoked Camel cigarettes, nearly two packs a day. When he was about 80 years old he stopped smoking cold turkey! He was having some trouble breathing after he walked and had been diagnosed with COPD. I remember asking him how he could just stop smoking after all of those years and he said "The doctor said I shouldn't smoke anymore, so I just didn't buy anymore cigarettes!"I remember as a young girl, the "special" gift for Dad on Father's Day was always a carton of Camels. Amazing. Photo c1937
