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Anti-Smoking Poster Boy Still Lights Up

'I'm afraid to quit' despite amputation, heart attacks, stroke

By Zach Samalin,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 12, 2008 7:26 PM CST

(Newser) – New Yorkers have grown to know Skip Legault's face well from anti-smoking ads in the subway and on TV over the past few weeks. A smoker since he was eight, Legault has lost a leg to blood clots, suffered two heart attacks in his twenties,...   Read full story »

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