Speaking of Lansky and Gotti, cancer deaths etc: it has always made me wonder why did so many mafiosi and mafia associates die of cancer? I don't remember all the names right now, but I just got the impression the number is so big that it's as if somebody put a cancer curse on the Cosa Nostra confused
cigs and alcohol might have something to do with it. plus a lot of the old timers that died of cancer lived in an era where the treatment was less than effective.
There are people who don't smoked for years and died of lung cancer and heavy smokers who live amost 100 y.
However, the mobster is a difficult job: always in the way to make the most money possible with the fear of being killed or by scum with which has to do make business, or by their "friends", with the risk to go to jail, even forever etc.
Researches say that stress damages the immune system, and maybe predisposes to cancer as well as hypertension and other diseases.
No curse, just stress.
