What The Last Year Of Patrick Swayze's Life Was Really Like

Photographers would catch photos of him smoking to the very end. Swayze had told Barbara Walters in a televised interview (reported by Access Hollywood) that he continued to smoke through his diagnosis but was making the conscious decision to reduce the smoking. "I've seriously cut down. I was one of those dumb ones that started

Photographers would catch photos of him smoking to the very end. Swayze had told Barbara Walters in a televised interview (reported by Access Hollywood) that he continued to smoke through his diagnosis but was making the conscious decision to reduce the smoking. "I've seriously cut down. I was one of those dumb ones that started back in the Marlborough Man days whose — you know, it was cool. I'm a cowboy. But I'll tell you one thing. I will talk so hard core against, against smoking for kids. That's one reason I've never smoked in front of children," said Swayze.

The images drew a lot of concern about his health, and rumors about what stage of the disease he was in. But his doctor gave an interview to Larry King discussing his agreement with Swayze's decision to smoke, reported HCPLive. "I think at the point that one is already diagnosed with cancer, there's little additional harm in it. And if it seems to provide him some comfort or partly identity of who he is, I certainly have no objections to that," said Dr. George A. Fisher.

The same article reported that median survival for pancreatic cancer is five months. Patrick Swayze lasted nearly 20 months after diagnosis.

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