So the billowing clouds of second and third hand smoke were bad after all..

[Imallin4Joe]

Rush was well-known for his cigar habit and would often gloat about how second and sometimes third hand smoke wasn't bad for a person as he sat in his radio studio during his hate-casts.

Ive seen some vids on the subject and yes the whole room was filled with smoke.

All the while he was spewing hatred that anti-smoking efforts were a liberal conspiracy to take away our freedoms and according to him, there's nothing wrong with breathing smoke.

Then he was diagnosed with lung cancer and the rest is history.

Rush was wrong about everything he spewed from his forked tongue mouth.

This wrong opinion cost him his life.

[dawg day]

1. Also there was that little oxy problem he had--

making his housekeeper get it for him...
Then he lost his hearing. Remember that? It's a sometime side effect of addiction-- sudden deafness.
Being rich and presumably well-insured, he could get the very advanced surgery to restore the hearing. You might think that being so blessed and lucky, he'd have come out of that with more compassion for others who suffered addiction and its damages.

Ha! Not Limbaugh! He managed to stay as nasty as ever.

[getagrip_already]

2. he once said he deserved a medal for smoking on air....

to dispel the lies about smoking.

I guess that ended about as expected.

[Imallin4Joe]

3. His denial of science and medicine were part of the venom spewed out from his forked-tongue mouth.

He can rot in hell for all I care.

[Mariana]

4. Actually, Rush predicted his own death pretty accurately.

He said smoking takes 50 years to kill you, if it does - and it took about 50 years for smoking to kill him.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Rotting from the inside out.