Steve Mcqueen

[Barry Brown]

where is page 16? do you just post this stuff without reading it?

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[Barry Brown]

I wonder if he ever donated any of his millions to cancer research or is that too cynical?

[portagepan]

Yes, it is.
Mike

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[Barry Brown]

sounds good.

[Chris Haynes]

Steve and Bud both shared a passion for Mexican cigarettes. Lung cancer killed Steve and Buds face and hands were stained from smoking them. It was not a pretty sight.

[Barry Brown]

the wrong type of Mexican cigarettes!

[45OZ]

Great song from a Killer group "Drive By Truckers"
Big McQueen Fans

[exeric]

Steve and Bud both shared a passion for Mexican cigarettes. Lung cancer killed Steve and Buds face and hands were stained from smoking them. It was not a pretty sight.

Somewhere I had read that a contributing factor in Steve's lung cancer was that he wore asbestos face protection when he raced. That sounded a bit hokey to me because I thought Nomex had been around for quite a few years.

[Barry Brown]

I thought it was throat cancer

[45OZ]

Somewhere I had read that a contributing factor in Steve's lung cancer was that he wore asbestos face protection when he raced. That sounded a bit hokey to me because I thought Nomex had been around for quite a few years.

McQueen died at the age of 50 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, following an operation to remove or reduce several metastatic tumors in his abdomen. He had been diagnosed with mesothelioma (a type of cancer associated with asbestos exposure), in December 1979, and had traveled to Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, in July 1980, for unconventional treatment after U.S. doctors advised him that they could do nothing to prolong his life.


Shortly before his death, McQueen had given a medical interview in which he blamed his condition on asbestos exposure. While McQueen felt that asbestos used in movie soundstage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, he believed his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship during his time in the Marines.[

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