OPEN THREAD: Toxicology tests show Billy Mays used cocaine before his death?
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I heard that also. It is not surprizing that he died of a heart attack, he has a heart attack face. You can tell when someone has that bacon fat look to them.
He was probabaly on cocain when he was doing his informercials. I don't know how anyone could be that high strung without it.
I have to say that I am a little shocked at the news of his cocaine use. I never would have suspected it. However, drug use does seem to be a common thread amongst celebrities.
On CNN it was revealed that Billy Mays family is calling this "cocaine finding" speculative and asking for an independent review. So I will not jump to conclusion until I hear the outcome of this independent review.
Well if you used cocaine, then he basically killed himself. That is very bad for the heart and not to sound cold, because I don't want anyone to be dead, but he brought it on himself and hard to feel sorry for him. I feel bad for the family he left behind, that's who is suffering.
Not a surprise that he was using cocaine. The high energy, overweight, loud profile is very prone to that. Look at Sam Kinnison, John Belushi, and John Candy.
They all used drugs and had the high strung appearance. I can't understand why they would do that to themselves, and that there hasn't been enough of it to teach people that it will kill you.
You know dipping his hands in all that cleanning stuff could be the cause much like the popy seed bread.
— An official autopsy report released Friday found that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, but his family called the finding "speculative" and considered getting an independent look at the results. The Hillsborough County medical examiner's office previously determined that the bearded, boisterous TV spokesman had a heart attack in his sleep. His wife found him unresponsive in bed in their Tampa condo June 28. Mays, 50, was a pop-culture fixture with his energetic commercials pitching gadgets and cleaning products like Orange Glo and OxiClean.
The medical examiner "concluded that cocaine use caused or contributed to the development of his heart disease, and thereby contributed to his death," the office said in a press release. The office said Mays last used cocaine in the few days before his death but was not under the influence of the drug when he died. Hillsborough County spokeswoman Lori Hudson said nothing in the toxicology report indicated the frequency of Mays' cocaine use.
"We were totally unaware of any non-prescription drug usage and are actively considering an independent evaluation of the autopsy results," Mays' family said in a statement. The statement said the family was "extremely disappointed" by the release of the information by the medical examiner's office. Cocaine can raise the arterial blood pressure, directly cause thickening of the left wall of the ventricle and accelerate the formation of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries, the release said.
The toxicology tests also showed therapeutic amounts of painkillers hydrocodone, oxycodone and tramadol, as well as anti-anxiety drugs alprazolam and diazepam. Mays had suffered hip problems and was scheduled for hip-replacement surgery the day after he was found dead. Longtime friend and colleague AJ Khubani, founder and CEO of the "As Seen on TV" product company Telebrands, said Mays never exhibited any signs of drug use and was always prepared for his many commercial shoots.
"I'm just shocked," Khubani said. Mays, a McKees Rocks, Pa. , native, developed his style demonstrating knives, mops and other "As Seen on TV" gadgets on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
For years he worked as a hired gun on the state fair and home show circuits, attracting crowds with his booming voice and genial manner. He got his start on TV on the Home Shopping Network and then branched out into commercials and infomercials. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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