Score One For Big Tobacco and Booze: Babe Ruth Didn’t Die From Throat Cancer

You’ve probably gone through your entire life thinking Babe Ruth died from drinking and smoking and eating half-smokes two at a time. But you’d be wrong. Light one up and top off that snifter, friends, because Babe didn’t die as a result of his plethora of vices. It was an extremely rare cancer, rather, that did the Bambino in at the young age of 53:↵↵⇥Dr. William Maloney uncovered little-known information about the experimental treatment that the doomed baseball titan agreed to take part in, the way Ruth conducted himself during his final days and the rare form of cancer he actually died from, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.↵⇥↵⇥The kind of cancer [Ruth] died from is not likely to be related to tobacco and alcohol. ↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥Nasopharyngeal carcinoma causes less than 1 percent of the cancer deaths in the U.S., though the cancer is far more prevalent in parts of Southeast Asia and northern Africa. The nasopharynx is a small area inside the head, above the soft palate and leading to the sinus.↵⇥

↵↵We might be reading too much into this, but we believe there’s a lesson to be learned here: Feel free to drink, smoke and womanize all you want, boys, because you’re gonna die from some weird Asian nose cancer anyway. Lucky for us, we started modeling our lives after John Daly long ago, so we should be just fine.↵