That's a shame. It's too bad he and Lemmy couldn't cut down on the smoking. Not to be insensitive but every time I saw those guys doing interviews, they were always puffing on a heater. Hopefully that's something those of us left behind can learn from.
kantner had a stroke about thirty years ago. i guess he never learned.
Shit, he made it to 74 anyway...
I lost a longtime friend just after Christmas 2014. Great guy who loved helping his friends and family. But he tried so hard to quit smoking for years and he just couldn't do it. Had a blood clot removed from his brain in the late 90s, still couldn't stop for long. Got pneumonia for about the fourth time in five years and that was it. Hard for me to understand since I quit cold turkey in 1998. He made it to 73 but I sure wish he could have made it longer.
It is a shame about Paul Kantner and Lemmy. If neither of them wanted to quit and convinced themselves it would never happen to them, well, what can you say? But if not, I'm not going to say they never learned. Maybe, maybe not. We can't know what struggles other people are going through.
