2007 Rush Limbaugh to a Caller:
RUSH: Well, look, if the World Health Organization had come out and say that half the people who use tobacco products don’t die, that’s sort of going against the grain. They want everybody to believe that if you pick up any tobacco product, particularly cigarette, that you’re doomed, you’ve had it, you’re finished. And, of course, look, the odds are that you’re running a far greater risk, but it’s not axiomatic. It’s been one of my points all along ever since I was a young kid. How come, if this stuff kills everybody, why isn’t everybody who ever smoked die from it? Some of these wackos, ‘Well, they do, Mr. Limbaugh, smoking may cause high blood pressure. They probably all do die in one way or another. May not all be lung cancer,’ and so forth. Probably will not be able to talk them out of that.
2020
RUSH: Well, look, if the World Health Organization had come out and say that half the people who use tobacco products don’t die, that’s sort of going against the grain. They want everybody to believe that if you pick up any tobacco product, particularly cigarette, that you’re doomed, you’ve had it, you’re finished. And, of course, look, the odds are that you’re running a far greater risk, but it’s not axiomatic. It’s been one of my points all along ever since I was a young kid. How come, if this stuff kills everybody, why isn’t everybody who ever smoked die from it? Some of these wackos, ‘Well, they do, Mr. Limbaugh, smoking may cause high blood pressure. They probably all do die in one way or another. May not all be lung cancer,’ and so forth. Probably will not be able to talk them out of that.
2020
Rush Limbaugh on Monday announced during his nationally syndicated radio show that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. The 69-year-old radio host — considered the most influential in radio among conservatives — added that he will be out for the next several days as he undergoes treatment. Limbaugh said he was experiencing shortness of breath before seeing doctors who discovered the issue.
“So, I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you. It’s a struggle for me, because I had to inform my staff earlier today,” he said. “I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with. The upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.”
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