 Here are the facts. Williams, a chain spoker, was diagnosed with emphysema. Yet according to his students, he would alternately take drags of oxygen and then a drag on a cigarette and continue teaching. Although smoking was not permitted in classrooms, Williams would balk at the rules, wave a cigarette in the air as he lectured, and is quoted as saying, ah, life was an amateur performance. To find out more facts about fiction, visit KUAR.org.