Longtime smoker Eddie Van Halen says guitar picks, magnets gave him cancer
In a move that’s tantamount to saying getting shot in the heart is dangerous because it can give you lead poisoning, longtime smoker Eddie Van Halen is saying holding metal guitar picks in his mouth gave him tongue cancer. That assertion comes from a fairly provocative interview the rocker did with Billboard, during which he both says he never listens to music and dishes on all of Van Halen’s myriad lead singers, from Gary Cherone to David Lee Roth.