ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Has Lung Cancer

[KiwiCoromandel]

ABC News television anchor Peter Jennings said on Tuesday he has lung cancer but he plans to continue broadcasting while he undergoes chemotherapy, starting next week.

The Canadian-born Jennings, host of ABC's "World News Tonight" since 1983, is the last of a generation of long-serving lead anchors for major U.S. broadcasters who is still delivering the nightly news...

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[slum_goddess]

shit shit shit... :(

[Kooperman]

Smoking is crazy. My father literally smothered to death with emphysema in 1984, yet I didn't quit smoking until 1987.

Before we married in 1998, my wife told me she was planning on quitting smoking....she smokes as much, or more, in 2005.

Eddie, our neighbor across the street, lost his wife to lung cancer just before Christmas....he's still smoking.

[KiwiCoromandel]

i used to smoke 60/70 marlborough ciggies a day (and that`s when i wasn`t partying).....i woke up one morning in 1987 (after i had watched my mother-in-law die a prolonged death from lung cancer) and never had another cigarette.....never wanted or craved for one again...same with my missus who used to smoke heavily as well :)

[slum_goddess]

i still smoke about 20, 30 a day. my dad died of lung cancer in 96 (he quit smoking in 1985). i think w/me, the damage is already done.

[Amber]

That sucks...I really like Peter Jennings. Hope he can get all fixed up :)

I smoke a pack a day for 11 years now <_>