Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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A news clipping on here has informed us that one of the top snooker player`s from the past, Alex `Hurricane` Higgins, from Northern Ireland has died from throat cancer, which he was diagnosed with 10 years ago. He was always good to watch, along with the other stars of the time, though I must admit that personally, I did prefer Pot Black, on BBC2 in the 1970s, as opposed to game after game of snooker for big money. Sadly a sign of the times.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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to be truthful colin, i thought he died a long time ago.
i remember pot black(snooker in black and white), an elderly lady neighbour of mine used to watch it.
i asked her why she was so keen on it, her reply was "the men look so smart dressed up that way".
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Another legend gone
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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So sad, Another Legend that had the world at his feet and let it all go to ruin.
Just out of interest. do any of you peeps play snooker? Iv'e not played since the Churchill closed down.
I could do with getting my balls out. ( and my cue ) not played for 3yrs.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Brian Dixon
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Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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Quite mild really methinks.....he could be going for the pink!
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Or in off the brown!!!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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or potting the black [ball that is].
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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A great snooker player indeed, but sadly another "legend" lost to cigs and drink.
You'd think that this type of news would deter people from at least smoking, but it doesn't - "won't happen to me" seems to be the thought, but in the vast majority of cases, it will.
Roger
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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RIP Alex.
I think you will find his throat cancer was caused by alcohol, not tobacco. Not a good combination I agree, but this one is down to the demon drink methinks. Whatever, a waste of talent despite his clear emotional instability.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Having lost so many good friends to cancer over the last few years, I worry about friends who still smoke, but then they're free to make their own choices - and who wants to live free from vice anyway? And, I'm just as likely to peg it from a heart attack, so is it right to worry over something that is almost inevitably a numbers game?
Alex Higgins was one of the greats of a sport that is full of unhealthy lifestyles, and he scaled the heights of greatness along the way. Given that we all have to go some day anyway, isn't it better to have lived the way he did than to have trodden the path of mediocrity? I suspect that Alex Higgins would have been a multi millionaire if he were at the top of the sport today, the fact that he died an alcoholic pauper down to human frailties. Rest In Peace, Hurricane - you were the very best of your kind.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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ROGER
Although clearly smoking aint good for you, my relatives on my mums side lived to a great iold age and chain smoked so not always having the effect people say it does.
On Alex he was a great sport, fantastic player, prob played better having had a drink, that said sometimes he showed he had one to many and missed sitters.
But he was a great entertainer, not frightened to speak out
my kind of sportsman
I'm with Andy, despite being fervently anti-smoking. Better to live the life you want than be constantly "safe" - life IS risk and risk IS life. It is just down to us which risks we think it is worth taking..........
And not for someone else to tell us either. Sanctimonious opinions are worthless at the best of times. I know I am going to die, it doesn't scare me in the least, and the road I take to that moment should be of my chosing, no-one else's.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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well said sid.
Just to pipe up (see what I did there...?) for us anti-smokers, though - absolutely support peoples right to choose their risks - as I said, that really is what life is about, isn't it? - it matters that their choices don't intrude on other peoples - one of the many reasons I discourage smoking: it impacts on me and mine!!! Equally, I don't think people make proper informed decisions, because to do that you need the information and until you have seen people of all ages having limbs removed, unable to breathe without help, unable to walk or wash their own backsides because of lack of breath and muscle power, all down to smoking, you may not be open to all the information!! I will now stop, and won't say another word on the subject. This comes from someone who drinks like a fish, btw, despite pictures of livers............ I am unusually prepared to admit to hypocricy!!!!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Actually ol' Hurricane didn't die of cancer..a recent press release claimed that he died through a lack of nourishment.He had been refusing food for months even though his wife was liquidising all solids due to him having no teeth. His cancer was in remission.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The thing with smokers is,they think it will not happen to them we all have to die ,but after seeing my mum and dad die because of smoking and they were very young ,aske most of the public who are now ill because of smoking and they will say"Only wish I had stoped when told to"by then it is to late.
I have put is on the forum before when in the army I had to help cut open a officer who had died of smoking for my med/training two weeks before he died i was siting and talking to him by his bedside and his family,he told them"He was geting better and would never smoke again. It was very upseting to all of us.
