New York, July 30 (ANI): Michael Douglas was captured on camera smoking on a yacht last week, merely six months after being cured of stage IV throat cancer.
The 66-year-old American actor appears on the new cover of Star Magazine and in photos inside he is seen puffing on a seemingly hand-rolled cigarette.
Douglas was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer last August, losing 32 pounds due to intensive chemotherapy and radiation.
"It's rare to return to smoking after something like this, but it's an addiction akin to heroin. It's a physical addiction, not just psychological, and very difficult to break," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Eric Genden, a Mt. Sinai surgeon specializing in cancers of the head and neck, as saying.
"But it's a bad idea. In patients with a history of carcinoma of the throat, smoking represents an exceptionally high risk to developing recurrence and even dying from the disease," he added. (ANI)
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