Famous People Are Human
Famous People with COPD
COPD is a chronic lung condition (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that affects many individuals, but has no cure. This is a very unglamorous disease (in the USA it includes emphysema and chronic obstructive bronchitis) that involves wheezing, coughing and chronic breathing problems, but this disease is normally self-inflicted. Many sufferers of COPD are smokers who developed the condition due to their bad habit. But not everyone who has been diagnosed with COPD is a smoker.
 Johnny Carson |
Like most diseases, COPD doesn’t discriminate and affects famous people and regular individuals at the same rate.
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Therefore, it is a common human disease that affects everyone similarly, but can be treated through different courses of treatment.
List of Famous People Who Have / Had COPD
| Loni Anderson Tallulah Bankhead Samuel Beckett Leonard Bernstein Walter Brennan William F. Buckley, Jr. Harry Carey Johnny Carson Fyodor Dostoyevsky King Edward VII T. S. Eliot Alan Ford King George V of England Arthur Godfrey Frank Gorshin John Huston Don Imus Spike Jones Boris Karloff Dean Martin Robert Mitchum Garry Moore |
Alfred Newman Leonard Nimoy Pat Nixon Johnny Paycheck Vincent Price Jerry Reed Del Reeves R.J. Reynolds, Jr. R.J. Reynolds III Dusty Rhodes Norman Rockwell Chris Schenkel Allan Sherman Barbara Stanwyck Maureen Stapleton Gene Tierney Ernest Tubb Forrest Tucker Christy Turlington Bill Wilson Amy Winehouse Dick York |
Since smoking is the leading cause of this condition, many notable people that have been diagnosed with COPD are former smokers. Johnny Carson, Dean Martin and Christy Turlington are just a few of the celebrities that have been diagnosed with this condition throughout the years. However, these stars have made their condition public to raise awareness and ensure that a cure for this condition is one day found.
Although these celebrities have more star quality, they still suffer from this disease in the same way that average individuals struggle with this chronic disease. This lung condition often progresses over time and transforms into emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Since no cure is known, this condition is the fourth leading cause of death and can kill celebrities as well as normal individuals, because in reality everyone is human. This is a life threatening condition for all that suffer from it and the symptoms only worsen over time.
COPD sufferers are urged to avoid all activity that causes breathing to speed up, because this will only worsen your symptoms. Even daily chores can leave sufferers out of breath and stars like Johnny Carson and Dean Martin had to learn how to cope with these symptoms.
T. S. Eliot
Conclusion
Often times, famous people are put on a pedestal and seen as immortal, but in the end we are all human and COPD is a reality from many. Many celebrities with this condition do use their status to promote COPD awareness and keep other people from developing the harmful habit of smoking.