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Lost leg, but can't kick the habit
Jump to full article: WABC-TV Ch. 7, 2008-01-11
Intro: He's had multiple heart attacks, a stroke and an amputation, but Skip Legault is still a smoker.
The one-legged poster boy for New York's anti-smoking campaign, who describes his blood clots and the smell of his rotting foot in a TV commercial, has apparently been unable to kick the habit.
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He says his doctors plead with him to quit, but he continues to smoke, in part because of fears that quitting will fatally alter the effects of the 13 medications he takes daily.
"I know I'm sick," he told the Daily News. "I know how sick I am. I know I could die today. If people knew how bad cigarettes are, maybe they wouldn't do it."
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