What cigarettes did Vysotsky smoke. Lev Yashin: contrary to prohibitions

Today is World No Tobacco Day and exactly one year since the new anti-tobacco law is in force in Russia. And tomorrow, the next amendments to federal law“On the protection of the health of citizens from the effects of the environment tobacco smoke and Consequences of Tobacco Consumption” on smoking bans in places common use, under the threat of a fine in the amount of 500 to 1500 rubles.
A year ago, I thought about, but it's time to remember domestic stars - you can also say about many of them that they "smoke deliciously."
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Faina Ranevskaya. They say that Faina Georgievna once stood completely naked in her make-up room and smoked when the managing director of the theater named after A.I. Moscow City Council Valentin Shkolnikov. Naked Ranevskaya asked the dumbfounded Shkolnikov: “I hope you are not shocked that I smoke?”
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Vladimir Vysotsky. The organizer of the Kyiv concerts of the artist in the 70s, Vladislav Mokrinsky, Vysotsky was remembered as an easy-to-handle person, who did not drink at all, but smoked a lot: “He smoked Marlboro cigarettes, which few people then managed to get, and never treated anyone to them.”

Leonid Filatov. Lev Durov recalled: “When Lenya was sick, I often visited him at home. He persuaded him not to smoke, and he, lighting one cigarette from another, said: “Well, then you will forbid me everything!”
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Alexander Abdulov: “And I need to quit smoking one hundred percent. But I'm weak, I can't. I quit once, didn’t smoke for two and a half years and gained forty kilograms. I can't do anything with myself. God give strength, maybe I will. Still, the body has already become so accustomed to forty years, as if repeating: give, give nicotine, give nicotine. And you don't give it to him. Then he will be offended and ill.”
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Muslim Magomayev smoked all his adulthood but it didn't affect the voice. Soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, friend and neighbor of Muslim Magomayev Vladislav Verestnikov: “Muslim could quit anything, but not smoking. He died with a cigarette in his mouth."
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Oleg Efremov in last years breathed through an oxygen machine. Viktor Sergachev, one of the creators of Sovremennik, recalls: “I somehow come to his office (we rehearsed there), he sits with the apparatus in his nostrils and smokes. I say: “What are you doing, Oleg Nikolaevich?” And he's like, "Okay. Go get a couple of cigarettes somewhere to spare. He quit drinking, he succeeded. I didn’t drink at all for six months, but I couldn’t quit smoking.”
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov. An excerpt from his interview with Dmitry Gordon:
«— ( Painfully familiar, well, just like Stirlitz, Tikhonov lights up). Dim, do you smoke?
— No, Vyacheslav Vasilievich, I didn’t even start ...
- Well done, how old are you?
— Unfortunately, it's already 40...
— (Thoughtfully). But the other day I was neither more nor less than 80. You are young, it's nice ... When was I 40? Well, yes, I smoked anyway... Since the war... As boys, when the Germans attacked, we walked the streets of the town of Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow, where I come from, and collected cigarette butts. Even in such slushy weather as today, they picked them up, dried them, peeled them and then rolled them into cigarettes. At that time it was impossible not to smoke ... ".
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Renata Litvinova: “I do not suggest smoking. But the cigarette is a very cinematic accessory. I do not impose or promote smoking. Everyone strives for self-destruction, and life is also self-destruction, a list of bad habits but sometimes beautiful bad habits.

The fact that smoking is poison, we hear from a young age. This phrase has become so familiar that it is often passed by her ears, chuckling: "Grandma's tales!". The editors of the site hope that the sad experience of the idols of millions will serve as a more vivid illustration of the dangers of smoking.

You might be interested to know about the stars who were ruined by alcohol and drugs.

Andrei Tarkovsky: with art to the end

The works of this director: "Solaris", "Stalker", "Andrei Rublev", "Mirror" - struck the Soviet audience to the core. However, Andrey Arsenievich's steadfastness, his commitment to his beloved work deserves no less respect.

As the wife of Andrei Tarkovsky later said, during a trip to Berlin in 1985, he began coughing, but at that time the director did not give it special significance. The film "Sacrifice", which became his latest work, Tarkovsky mounted already at constantly elevated temperature, which could not be knocked down even with antibiotics - from that moment the director realized that something was wrong with him. Soon the fears were confirmed - the doctors diagnosed him with malignant tumor lungs.

In the last years of his life, the director smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day - it was because of this habit that the torch of Russian cinema died in a relatively young age- at 54 years old. According to relatives, he last day remained composed and efficient despite the morphine he used as an anesthetic.

Archil Gomiashvili: the death of the great strategist

This actor with Georgian roots gained popular love after the role of the cunning Ostap Bender from the film adaptation of "12 Chairs" by Leonid Gaidai. However, its sad fate the artist failed to outwit - in 2005 he lost the fight called "life" to lung cancer.

The actor lived long life- 80 years, and most of them he smoked a lot and with pleasure. As the family of Archil Mikhailovich said, it burned down in just a few months.

Alexander Abdulov: force of habit

During his last interview at the end of 2007, he enthusiastically shared his career plans, completely unaware that they were not destined to come true. The journalist, as if anticipating the death of the actor, asked a question about smoking. The artist admitted that he was aware of the harm of the habit, and said that he managed to give it up for two and a half years, but then the forty-year experience of a smoker still took its toll. “The body is used to it,” Abdulov justified himself guiltily. Even later, in a clinic in Israel, stricken with lung cancer, he continued to smoke.

On January 3, 2008, the artist died at the age of 55. It is unfortunate that death takes the best, but the memory of Abdulov is kept by his numerous roles: from the Bear from the fairy tale " Ordinary miracle to Fagot-Koroviev from The Master and Margarita.

Dmitri Shostakovich: "I smoke especially a lot"

Brilliant composer who composed his first piece of music at the age of 9, a symbol of resilience besieged Leningrad who left a mark on the world cultural heritage, also had his weakness - smoking.

The author of numerous operas, symphonies and ballets was repeatedly asked how compositions are born in his head. Shostakovich answered over and over again that he often suffers from insomnia and at such moments he smokes a lot and walks on foot, pondering future masterpieces.

After the war, he decided to say goodbye to addiction, but failed to do so. The last years of his life he suffered from lung cancer, complicated by muscle disease (lateral amyotrophic sclerosis). On August 9, 1975, after a long struggle with illness, the 68-year-old composer left this world.

Muslim Magomayev: a man-paradox

Paradoxically, but a fact: the owner of a stunning baritone did not take care of his voice at all. smoked all his life, but until the very last day he sang just as wonderfully.

Unfortunately, his health turned out to be weaker than his voice, and in 2008 the 66-year-old singer died of coronary disease hearts. In one of the interviews, he once admitted that if he were destined to live another life, he would not touch tobacco.

Nikolay Rybnikov: “Why not earlier?”

The most popular Soviet actor In the 70s, he started smoking from school. However, the viewers of the unforgettable "Girls" themselves could see how Rybnikov's hero appears here and there with a cigarette in his mouth.

An attempt to quit smoking occurred after a mental shake-up from doctors - in 1980 they diagnosed Nikolai Rybnikov lung disease. After the actor was threatened with amputation of one lung, he immediately forgot about cigarettes, began to monitor his health, but for the rest of his life he reproached himself: “Why didn’t I do this earlier?” Did not help: too great harm years of smoking inflicted on his heart and blood vessels. At the age of 59, he died from sudden stop hearts.

Rolan Bykov: "I'm not afraid to die"

He was amazing person: played in films, taught young actors, made films, worked on television and radio, wrote prose and poetry, and even ran a bank. He was equally surprising about life: he said that, unlike many, he was not afraid to die. And when to be afraid, if there is so much to do in time?

At 66, he was diagnosed with lung cancer; had to go through surgery. The disease receded, but after a couple of years, the cancer again made itself felt. On October 6, 1998 he died.

Lev Yashin: contrary to prohibitions

Officially, Soviet athletes were strictly forbidden to smoke - for this it was even possible to say goodbye to their careers. However, the legendary Dynamo goalkeeper was not afraid of such a harsh prospect - he knew that the fans loved him and that he was playing so well that he had nothing to be afraid of.

During the war years, Yashin, still a teenager, had to work on a par with his father at the factory, and in order not to fall exhausted during a many-hour shift, he began to smoke.

How the idols left. Lev Yashin

When his football career was left behind, he became friends with a cigarette even stronger. Even a vascular disease, due to which he had to amputate his leg, did not force him to give up the habit. Waking up from anesthesia, Lev asked the surgeon for a cigarette. Six years and two heart attacks later, the 60-year-old Dynamo player died of lung cancer.

Anna Samokhina: coffee and cigarettes until the last day

and now would amaze the audience with inner charisma and beauty, if not for the passion for coffee and cigarettes. Every morning she started with a cup tart drink accompanied by tobacco. In addition, the woman constantly sat on exhausting diets, and yet nicotine affects empty stomach doubly destructive.

The actress was only 47 years old when she was diagnosed with the last, inoperable stage of stomach cancer. Anna's fans to this day leave cigarettes on her grave at the Smolensk cemetery.

Oleg Efremov: a romantic of his time

Talking about his father, Mikhail Efremov commented on his bad habit: "It was the romance of that time." Romance had a reverse medal: at the end of his life, a heavy smoker was forced to connect to the device every day artificial ventilation lungs. And sat down with a cigarette. There were honest attempts to get rid of addiction - filters, mouthpieces, even a foreign cigarette case that opens at certain hours. It did not help - lung cancer overtook him at 72 years old.

Evgeny Evstigneev: lived thanks to 10%

The heart of this actor is truly amazing, and not only in a figurative sense. Having exchanged the seventh ten, he began to systematically feel discomfort in his chest. Doctors recommended to go to a London clinic for examination.

The examination showed the phenomenal viability of Evgeny Evstigneev: out of his four heart vessels, three were completely clogged, and the holes of the fourth were only 10% open. Again, tobacco is to blame: the actor was more often seen with a pipe or a cigarette in his mouth than without them. And although, being a demanding smoker, he preferred elite foreign tobacco, and not the "plebeian" Belomor or Astra cigarettes, the end of his life was natural.

Terry Lewis, the luminary of British cardiology, told him bluntly: “You will die despite the operation. Can only save you donor heart". There was nowhere to wait for the organ, and the actor agreed to the operation. On March 4, 1992, he died on operating table. He was 65 years old.

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Famous, beloved ... the dead

Today we will remember those who were at the height of the stars and ... unfortunately, most of them overtook a painful end. It would seem that, bright life which attracted millions of admiring glances. But no one would wish for such an end. Often, in everyday life, we may not see the results of the destructive passion of smoking. And here they are - as in the window! And each of them either did not attach importance to the danger, or were powerless in the face of the threat of tobacco.

Oleg Yankovsky

People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize. He was loved. He was a unique actor and a heavy smoker. Unfortunately ... Death at the age of 65, struck by pancreatic cancer, made millions of viewers mourn. A fragment of one interview shows a paradoxical desire to maintain health, but at the same time, deadly danger could not force to give up the deadly poison. To the correspondent's question "Why do you smoke cigars?", he answered: - "Produced in our country under the guise of cigarettes, even imported ones, it is painfully harmful to health." “Maybe you shouldn’t smoke at all?” - "I can not - I like the process."

Andrei Tarkovsky

Died at the age of 54. Brilliant cult Russian director and screenwriter! What was the cause of death? What took the life of a cinematic genius full of strength and creativity so early? The cigarette is the culprit! Tobacco is the enemy of mankind. Heavy smoker, Andrei Arsenievich, like many others enslaved by this evil, were not able to resist this process of mortification.

Tobacco withered and sucked strength. Andrei Arsenievich, who looked at seventy, turned into a "smoked vobla" in his fifty. Takrovsky survived on morphine, cancer tormented him with unbearable pain.

But how much could a genius do, create, if it were not for early death. If not for the slavery of nicotine ...

Ilya Oleinikov

The diagnosis is pneumonia. The actor died at the age of 64. However, the real reason was smoking. Sick lungs and heart did not distinguish Ilya Oleinikov from the mass of people, and he became a victim, like many, many ordinary smokers. The disease did not become a reason for refraining from smoking, and until the last day he swallowed poisonous smoke, bringing his death closer.

Alexander Abdulov

From the age of 14, Alexander Abdulov smoked. The cigarette accompanied him all his life to the very grave, where it directed him. In an interview, he said: “I want to live the way I like! I understand that smoking is bad, but I'm weak - I can't quit. The body has already become so accustomed to forty years, as if repeating: give, give nicotine, give nicotine.

Lung cancer took the life out of Abdulov, but Alexander did not spare himself and smoked until his hand could hold a cigarette. "I want to live ... the way I like it ..." 55 years of life ended in excruciating pain. Even potent drugs they were not able to appease them, but only gave a respite for a while. Could it be that this state was “as you like it”?

Alexander Abdulov had a daughter and life would only begin, but it ended.

Vasily Shukshin

A talented writer, actor and director, a big lover of tobacco, and alcohol, unfortunately (as well as a huge number creative people in our country), died of a heart attack at the age of 45.

Anna Samokhina

Death awaited her at the age of 47. This beautiful actress had a passion for coffee and cigarettes. The cause of death is stomach cancer. Pathology of the stomach frequent occurrence among people who smoke. Probably, the image of the actress is so unthinkable without a cigarette that someone still leaves a pack on her grave. Perhaps these are Anna's fans, tobacco fans ...

Andrey Mironov

The stroke struck suddenly, as often happens, at the age of 46, beyond the most popular in the country and probably the most beloved artist. Andrey at this time was completely immersed in work. He wasn't going to die. It happened right on the stage. But his whole life was the reason for such a final performance. Starting as a student, Mironov made a strong "friendship" with an insidious girlfriend - a cigarette. She was there even when there was a lot of work. Attempts to get rid of her were unsuccessful. Smoking hit him vascular system and he died.

Pavel Luspekaev

Even during the filming of the wonderful actor Pavel Luspekaev, one of the most colorful characters in the film " White sun desert" had terrible pains in the legs. He had a foot amputation and could hardly walk. Cause - a typical disease for smokers - critical ischemia lower extremities.

The actor smoked a lot even when he suffered from an illness. The body's safety margin was exhausted by the age of 42. Gangrene of the legs and blockage of blood vessels deprived everyone of the beloved actor of "lady luck".

Muslim Magomaev

Incomparably popular, brilliant opera and pop singer. wide generous soul a person throughout his life did not part with a cigarette. He died at the age of 66. Circulatory disorders due to smoking. Like many smokers, he regretted his smoking and said in one of his interviews before his death: “If there was a second life, then the only thing I would change would be not to smoke”.

Vladimir Vysotsky

A bright actor, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1987 - posthumously), a poet and songwriter with a guitar, an idol of youth, in which interest has not waned to this day, one might say, did not let go of a cigarette. He died at the age of 42 from cardiac arrest on the background of alcoholism and drug addiction, the prelude to which and the accompaniment has always been and is smoking, as the first step on the stairs leading to hell.

Boris Khmelnitsky

He also smoked, unfortunately, he died in 2008. The reason is cancer. He was one of the most romantic and beautiful actors in our cinema, a wonderful man of noble soul, to the highest degree.

Evgeny Evstigneev

At the age of 65, a talented beautiful man passed away, who got married shortly before his death. In the last years of his life, the actor experienced big problems with a heart and had to be operated on in London. He was also a heavy smoker. 90% of the vessels of the heart are clogged and the doctors warned about the dangers of the operation. The operation took place, the result is known ...

Evgeny Evstigneev smoked a lot for a long time, which became main reason the death of a famous actor.

Georgy Tovstonogov

Died of a heart attack while driving. People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, the permanent epoch-making director of the BDT, who brought up several generations of stage directors, did not let go of a cigarette.

Mikhail Kazakov

The death of this popular artist and heavy smoker, who never parted with his pipe, caught him in an Israeli hospital. He married shortly before his death. Lungs' cancer.

Joseph Brodsky

Laureate Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987. The most talented poet of the second half of the last century also did not part with tobacco for one hour and died at the age of 55 from a heart attack.

Lyubov Polishchuk

She died of cancer at the age of 57.

Grigory Gorin

The famous satirist and playwright was constantly with a pipe in his mouth. Died of a heart attack at age 60.

Mikael Tariverdiev

He smoked always and everywhere, and even when his pressure increased, he used a cigarette as a pill. A wonderful composer (author of music for such famous films: “The Irony of Fate, or With light steam", "Seventeen Moments of Spring").

Tariverdiev was strong man, went in for water skiing, was a candidate windsurfer, but even outwardly healthy body couldn't handle nicotine addiction and at the age of 64 his life ended from heart failure and blockage of blood vessels caused by years of smoking.

Nikolay Rybnikov

One of the most popular actors, the idol of the sixties has been smoking since childhood. One of the most popular actors on the screen was constantly with a cigarette in his mouth. He died of a heart attack before he even reached 60.

Alexander Abdulov, 54 years old

The famous actor continued to smoke even in Israeli clinic where he was expected to undergo surgery for lung cancer. The smoke from his room was spreading everywhere, which caused complaints from other patients. But Abdulov continued to smoke - he no longer saw the point in quitting. He knew that the time for the operation had been lost. Before he died, he said: “Four months of pain. I'm wildly tired ... ".
Here is a fragment of one of the last interviews, when the actor, full of creative plans, was unaware of his diagnosis.
Correspondent:
- You have bad habits - smoking is also harmful.
Alexander Abdulov:
- Very harmful. And I need to quit smoking, one hundred percent. But I'm weak, I can't. I quit once, didn’t smoke for two and a half years, gained forty kilograms. I can't do anything with myself. God give strength, maybe I will. Still, the body has already become so accustomed to forty years, as if repeating: give, give nicotine, give nicotine. And you don't give it to him. Then he will be offended and get sick ... (No comment).

Anna Samokhina, 47 years old
Died of stomach cancer. People who knew the actress said that she could not live without coffee and cigarettes. Cigarettes can be seen on her grave at the Smolensk cemetery, especially on memorial days - they are left by numerous fans of this beautiful woman and a wonderful actress who knew that she smoked until the last day.

Oleg Efremov, 72 years old
One of the greatest Russian actors and theater directors, a national favorite. Heavy smoker. “I remember that at some point my father got a cigarette case that opened by the hour,” recalled Mikhail Efremov. - That is, if you took out a cigarette from him in an hour, then you won’t get the next one before two. His father brought him back from some foreign trip. Very happy with the purchase. “Now I’m definitely going to quit smoking!” he said. I didn’t quit… Then I tried all kinds of mouthpieces, filters. But he never gave up cigarettes. You see, cigarettes were the romance of that time…”
AT recent months Efremov's life was terrifying to watch - he moved with difficulty, sat at rehearsals, connected to a device that ventilated his lungs. And in his hand was a constant cigarette. Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov died of lung cancer.

Evgeny Evstigneev, 65 years old
In recent years I have experienced serious problems with heart. Relatives persuaded him to be operated on in London. Irina Tsyvina, Evstigneev's wife, recalls: “The night before Evgeny went to the clinic, I woke up from the fact that I saw in a dream how he smokes. I turned on the light: he was sitting and smoking ... I got angry, made him throw away the cigarette and go to bed ... "The doctors, having examined Evstigneev, said:" It is customary for us to warn the patient about possible consequences operations. Here is your heart (he drew) in it four vessels. Three of them are completely filled, and the fourth is ninety percent. Your heart works only because there is ten percent of the hole in one vessel ... "
Evstigneev, who was not at all an old man (who had recently married for the third time), died the day before the operation. The famous actor has been smoking for many years and his health has undoubtedly been ruined by cigarettes.

Dmitry Shostakovich, 68 years old
A brilliant composer, the most performed author of music in the world today, a pianist, teacher and public figure who had a huge impact on the development of world musical culture. He began composing music at the age of nine. Author of 15 symphonies, three operas and three ballets, instrumental and vocal music. Died in 1975 from cancer of the left lung. When asked how the creative process goes, he replied: “Insomnia is always observed at this time; especially I smoke a lot; take long walks (which encourages reflection); I walk around the room, I write while standing, I can’t remain calm at all ... ”According to the composer’s relatives, he quit smoking after the war, but after the persecution in the Pravda newspaper, when Stalin himself did not like the opera Katerina Izmailova, again took up a cigarette.

Nikolay Rybnikov, 59 years old

The incredibly popular actor, the idol of the sixties, started smoking as a boy. In the film "Girls" it is amazing that he is with a lit cigarette either at dances or in the girl's room - without even asking the permission of the hostesses. Then it was customary ... At fifty, he was suspected serious illness lungs, and was told that one lung would have to be removed. The famous actor immediately quit smoking and began to monitor his health. "Why didn't I do this before?" he once exclaimed. The actor had problems with the heart and blood vessels. Rybnikov died in his sleep from a heart attack.

Boris Pasternak, 70 years old
One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel "Doctor Zhivago" (he was forced to refuse it), eternally persecuted and misunderstood by his contemporaries. Died of lung cancer. Six years later, his wife Zinaida Nikolaevna Pasternak (Neigauz), aged 69, died of the same disease. Both smoked a lot. Shortly before his death, he met in his Peredelkino with the famous American composer Leonard Bernstein. In response to the remark of an American about the complexity of life in Russia, he said: "What does the ministers have to do with it? An artist talks to God..."

Mikhail Svetlov, 61
A wonderful Russian poet, who, probably, can be called a real "mouthpiece of the era": "I left the hut, went to war, so that I could give the land in Grenada to the peasants ...". He was in the hospital, the diagnosis - lung cancer - alas, was confirmed. One lady asked him endlessly: “What do they find with you anyway?” The poet proudly answered: "Talent!" The dying Svetlov continued to joke. He turned, for example, to Lidia Libedinskaya: “Old woman (she was not an old woman at all at that time), bring me some beer! Yes, beer! Rakov - no need. I think I have cancer! And when one of the fans, seeing Svetlov, said: “Wow, in front of me is a living classic!”, The poet corrected him: “Barely alive ...”

Rolan Bykov, 68 years old
An amazing actor, a man of versatile talents, he filmed and filmed himself, led a director's workshop at higher courses scriptwriters and directors, worked on radio and television, headed the All-Union Center for Cinema and Television for Children and Youth, author of poetry and prose, at one time he even headed a bank ... Dear Barmalei in Aibolit-66, Father Fyodor in The Twelve Chairs, Red Army soldier Karyakin in "Two comrades served" ... In 1996, he underwent surgery for lung cancer, and after a couple of years the disease returned. He felt that he had not done everything in life that he could. Before his death, he told his wife Elena Sanaeva: “I am not afraid to die ... You will not have time to grieve. You will have to finish what I didn’t have time to do.”

Georgy Tovstonogov, 73 years old
The famous director, the man thanks to whom they learned about the Leningrad BDT far beyond the borders of the country, smoked constantly. Also during rehearsals. He tried to quit more than once, but could not, and eventually began to use a mouthpiece, confident that in this way the harm from cigarettes becomes less. He died of lung cancer, that is, from cigarettes.

Andrei Tarkovsky, 54 years old
The director, whose films - "Andrei Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", "Stalker" - did not leave anyone indifferent. In 1982, he left for Italy to shoot the film Nostalgia, and never returned to the USSR. He took off another picture - "The Sacrifice", and decided to film the "Fifth Gospel" by Rudolf Steiner. At this time, he was diagnosed with a tumor in his lungs. “It all started in Berlin,” the director's wife said. “Andrey began to cough heavily; as a child he had tuberculosis, he coughed all the time and therefore did not pay attention to it. But when, in September 1985, he came to Florence to work on the editing of The Sacrifice, he constantly kept slight temperature and that worried him. It feels like with a protracted cold ... It was at that moment that he fell ill. But we had no idea yet...” Andrei Tarkovsky spent his last days in Paris. “He took morphine for pain relief (“I am swimming,” he said), but his consciousness was clear; some kind of internal energy helped him to always be collected ... ”, - recalled Larisa Tarkovskaya.

Anatoly Solonitsyn, 47 years old

Favorite actor of Tarkovsky. We remember him from the films "Andrey Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", "Stalker". Another celebrity who died from smoking. He smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. Died of lung cancer. The operation did not help.

Venedikt Erofeev, 51
“... I walked around the site in even more terrible excitement. And he smoked everything, and he smoked everything, ”a phrase from the famous poem“ Moscow - Petushki. The hero there now and then goes out into the vestibule - and lights up. And although the writer could not stand being identified with his hero Venichka, in terms of bad habits (smoking and alcohol), they had a lot in common. Erofeev smoked a lot, everything.

Andrey Mironov, 46 years old

The stroke happened right on the stage. Mironov smoked throughout his life, even from the Shchukin school. I quit many times, there were periods when I did not smoke. But when the work piled on, he again took a cigarette in his hands. Few associate it premature death famous actor with smoking. But everyone knows that tobacco affects not only the lungs and bronchi, but also the cardiovascular system.

Lev Yashin, 60 years old
Legendary Dynamo goalkeeper, Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. He started smoking before he finished his sports career. In general, athletes were not allowed to smoke, for this one could be thrown out of the team, but Yashin was a star ... Leaving the sport, Yashin began to smoke incredibly much. At the age of 55, due to obliterating endarteritis (a disease of the vessels of the lower extremities caused by smoking), he lost right foot. But even after that, the famous athlete did not quit smoking. Died of lung cancer.

Ivan Tregubov, 61

Another smoking celebrity from the world of sports. He liked to tell that sport is his whole life for him, and he smokes because he left hockey. The legendary hockey player, the star of CSKA, the best defender in the world in 1958 and 1961 (Canadian journalists called him "Ivan the Terrible") died of lung cancer.

Eduard Streltsov, 53 years old
Every year, since 1997, the best football players in the country have been awarded the Russian football award "Sagittarius", named after Eduard Streltsov - "forward for all times", a talented football player, the 1956 Olympic champion. The Torpedo stadium in Moscow bears his name, in front of the entrance there is a monument to Streltsov. The famous athlete, who could not imagine his life without football, died early due to smoking - lung cancer.

Edmond Keosayan, 57 years old

After the first series of The Elusive Avengers, he, as they say, woke up famous one fine morning. Such national glory could be envied by many. The director filmed a lot (and not only adventure films), wrote scripts and even starred in his own films. In recent years, he dreamed of permanently moving to his homeland, to Armenia, and making a poignant film about post-war boys growing up on the streets of Yerevan. But he did not have time - throat cancer.

Grigory Gorin, 60 years old
Writer-satirist, screenwriter, chief comedian of the perestroika era, brilliant playwright (“Jester Balakirev”, “The same Munchausen”, “Say a word about the poor hussar”, “Formula of love”, “Kill the dragon”, only 18 plays that are still Since then they have not left the theatrical scenes, 11 excellent films have been shot according to his scripts). He smoked his pipe all the time. Died of a massive heart attack.

Pavel Luspekaev, 42 years old
The work of Luspekaev in the film "White Sun of the Desert" was a feat. Filming sick - his feet were half amputated - he created such a vivid and memorable image that many viewers did not even realize that Luspekaev during the filming could walk only twenty steps on his own. And then he sat down to rest on a folding chair, which he constantly carried with him. Kinky - critical ischemia of the lower extremities - typical disease smoker. The famous actor smoked for a long time and a lot, suffered terrible pain - and still continued to smoke ...

Mikael Tariverdiev, 64 years old
A wonderful composer (everyone knows his music for the films Seventeen Moments of Spring and The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath, but in fact he wrote several operas and ballets, instrumental music, organ music, romances) resorted to a cigarette as a anesthetic. His blood pressure rose and his head began to hurt terribly. Having smoked a cigarette, the composer got some relief for a moment, and everything repeated again and again.

Levon Kocharyan, 39 years old
At the age of 40, one of Vladimir Vysotsky's best friends, Levon Kocheryan, who managed to make only one film, "One Chance in a Thousand", died of cancer. The owner of the famous apartment on Bolshoy Karetny, he, according to his friends, "knew how to do everything: fix things and break obstacles, cook delicious food and eat glass glasses, conduct scientific conversations and fight with his head ...". But I couldn't quit smoking.

Vasily Shukshin, 45 years old
Yuri Nikulin recalled: “The day before his death, Vasily Makarovich was sitting in the dressing room, waiting for the master make-up artist to start working. He took a pin, dipped it into a jar of red make-up and began to draw something, draw on reverse side packs of Shipka cigarettes. Burkov, who was sitting next to him, asked: - What are you drawing? “Yes, you see,” Shukshin answered, pointing, “here are the mountains, the sky, the rain, well, in general, the funeral ... ”Smoking, alcohol ...

Mikhail Kononov, 67 years old
Beloved by all, the head of Chukotka and Nestor Petrovich from the Big Change, who starred in 69 films and voiced many cartoons (since the 1990s he has not been filmed), died of heart failure. The famous actor has been smoking for many years.

Mikhail Kozakov, 76 years old
Everyone's Favorite Russian actor and director Mikhail Kozakov died in one of the Israeli hospices from lung cancer. A colleague and friend of Mikhail Mikhailovich - actor Alexander Pashutin recalled: “I did not know about his illness, but I was always horrified at how much he smoked! .. Misha, Oleg Efremov, Sasha Abdulov ... All of them were killed by this terrible disease. Kozakov was always with a pipe, he constantly breathed this muck ... "

Ilya Kormiltsev, 47 years old

The main author of the lyrics of the songs of the Nautilus Pompilius group, a Russian poet, translator, music and literary critic, editor-in-chief of the Ultra.Kultura publishing house, was left with a cigarette in many photographs: an ironic look through glasses - and cigarette smoke. Died of spinal cancer.

Joseph Brodsky, 55 years old
Great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lev Losev recalled about him: “His heart was increasingly faltering, in his condition anyone would have switched to a shy disabled regime, and he not only worked at full strength, but also sat up after midnight with friends, joked, drank and did not quit the damned smoke ". And the poet himself spoke of his habit in this way: “... Although - you can live. What a crappy / - the devil pushes to smoke. / I don’t know who Goncharova is, / but the cigarette is my Dantes. / (Winter, especially in the landscape). / She will kill me. But I'll smoke it out. She / to us from above, it is said, is given / - a substitute for happiness: a habit, / a bridle of obstinate inventions, / an accessible star of the nights, / a stopper for thoughtless minutes. / Dust does not need a wall: / put an ashtray on me!

Sergey Dovlatov, 49 years old
A remarkable Russian writer, who became widely known only after his death, a close friend of Brodsky, who left the following entry about him in his notebooks: “When the doctor forbade Joseph Brodsky to smoke after another heart attack, he asked: If, waking up in the morning, do not drink coffee and do not light a cigarette, then why wake up at all then? .. ”Dovlatov himself also did not part with a cigarette. He died in New York from heart failure. He knew something about his departure, because in one of the notebooks there were the words: “My age is such that when buying new shoes, I think: will they not bury me in them?”

Muslim Magomayev, 66 years old
The famous opera and pop singer, whose baritone thundered everywhere in the Soviet Union, who died of heart attack, in one of his last interviews he said: "If there was a second life, then the only thing I would change would be not to smoke."

Oleg Yankovsky, 65 years old
“The same Munchausen” almost until the last day played on the stage of the Moscow Lenkom, overcoming pain. The cause of death is pancreatic cancer. From an interview with Jankowski:

- What are you smoking today, Oleg Ivanovich - a pipe or a cigar?
Do you think this is of fundamental importance?
- Of course. People who know you well explained: when Yankovsky is with a pipe, you can talk to him, but if you have a Davidoff cigar in your mouth, it’s better not to meddle.
- Fairy tales! I really got addicted to the pipe only in recent years - it somehow feels warmer, more comfortable, especially if the right conditions are created: a calm atmosphere, a fireplace, a glass of whiskey ... You don’t really run around the city with a pipe - it’s uncomfortable.
- So keep cigars as a fallback?
- Yeah, sort of. Produced in our country under the guise of cigarettes, even imported ones, it is painfully harmful to health.
- Even more harmless - not to smoke at all?
- It's - sorry, it's not working yet. Can't quit. Like the process.

Andrey Cherkizov, 52 years old
A well-known journalist, political commentator for the Ekho Moskvy radio station, shortly before his death, tried to defend the rights of smokers. Here is a quote from Cherkizov's remark: “Well, everything is now impossible; Oh! Just - ah! The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was approved today at the 56th annual session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. But, in my opinion, a lot of hysteria has concentrated around tobacco ... Is it really possible to drive people into the ghetto? I understand those who don't smoke. But why not learn to understand those who smoke too?” And again - no comment