PITTSBURGH - Bradleys Roadhouse, 61, became the first local smoker of the season to freeze to death on smoke break yesterday. Roadhouse, a paralegal with a Pittsburgh law firm, died of frostbite while standing outside the Gulf Tower trying to sneak a few puffs of nicotine on a "smoke break." Statistically more dangerous than lung cancer or any of the other diseases associated with smoking, "freezing-to-death-on-smoke-break" has become a national epidemic.
"I can't tell you how many blue employees I've carried back into the office, frozen like popsicles," said Hadley V. Baxendale, Managing Partner of Roadhouse's firm, Peckham, Knox & Baxendale in the Gulf Tower. "Unfortunately, we got to this one [victim] too late."
