He was a heavy smoker his entire life and when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1989, he was said to have joked, "Make sure that everyone knows that it wasn't lung cancer!"
Био је тежак пушач цели живот, а када му је 1989. дијагностификован терминални рак, речено је да се шалио: "Уверите се да сви знају да то није рак плућа!"