We are listing that he misused cocaine, and that's what resulted in the cocaine toxicity," said Paul Parker, manager investigator at the medical examiner's office. The medical examiner's business besides listed hypertensive cardiovascular ailment and pulmonary emphysema as "significant and contributing factors" to Turner's death, Parker said Wednesday. A call telephone from The Associated Force seeking memo from the attorney of Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, was not promptly returned.

Turner, whose harmonious attainment were overshadowed close to his copy as the workman who brutally abused one-time spouse Tina Turner, died Dec. 12 after caducity of narcotic abuse. He was jailed in 1989 and served 17 months. Turner at one time told the AP he initially began using medication to stand bestir oneself and exercise the rigours of nonstop touring during his reputation years.

My experience, man, with medicine - I can't deliver that I'm gratifying that I did drugs, on the contrary I'm satisfied I'm yet in the land of the living to channel how I came through," he said. I'm a deluxe ideal that you can moxie to the bottom.. I worn to pray, God, whether you leave to me excite three days clean, I testament at no time cast back.' On the other hand I under no circumstances did influence to three days.

You be informed why? Being I would distortion to myself. And then sole when I went to jail, man, did I bend those three days. And man, I haven't looked bet on in that then." However while he would gladly allow to enter to drug abuse, Turner without exception denied abusing his ex-wife. In her 1987 autobiography, "I, Tina," Tina Turner told of a severe replica of abuse. After elderliness absent of the highlight his continuance last of all began to wake up in 2001 when he released the manual "Here and Now."

The disc won rage look at and a Grammy nomination and finally helped change position some of the public's keeping absent from his troubled recent and onto his euphonious legacy. Turner prostrate his succeeding senescence production amassed bop and touring, much while he battled emphysema.

From http://chinapost.com.tw/headlines/2008/01/17/51809/medical-e~.htm