h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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no, I'm sorry, even I can't complete that joke

No, it's really ok.

Yes many infact wwe stars on steriods are the ones that spring to mind .

I can't really be too specific because we've had a few here in the US as far as baseball and football in recent years. I think Ken Caminiti died of a heart attack caused by steriod use a couple of years ago. Remember him playing for the Houston Astros, and it was sad his life ended so soon.

You might try doing some searches regarding Major League Baseball and National Football League in that regard.

I heard recently that some research was done tracing the East German athletes from the 60s who were given performance enhancing drugs (some without their knowledge.

An incredibly high number of them have died of cancers and stuff which may be linked to the drugs. Here's a link to an article - might be worth searching for more info ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C01E3D91738F935A15752C0A9629C8B63

A quote from the above article
"An estimated 500 to 2,000 former East German athletes are believed to be experiencing significant health problems associated with steroids, including liver tumors, heart disease, testicular and breast cancer, gynecological problems, infertility, depression and eating disorders. Some female athletes have reported miscarriages and have had children born with deformities like club feet."

more stuff here ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=East+German+athletes+drugs+deaths+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

>>The British/American Wrestler, Davy *boy* Smith.
He died of a heart attack brought about by the use of bodybuilding steroids.<<

His son (wrestler 'DH Smith') obviously doesn't blame the drugs for his dads death. He got a 30 day 'substance abuse' suspension by the WWE back in November.

Still, it's nice to see someone carry on a modern family tradition...
(makes a note for 2009 deathlist game)

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Steve "Interesting" Davies.