I was  hoping he might have found help with glyconutrients ... which seem so promising 

The TV news commentator said that he had been fighting the effects of smoking for 20 years (lung cancer?) and that he was a Vietnam Vet.  (Did he recall a serious FLU  during his military service ?  2-butoxoyethanol  should be suspect for his harm, if is)

Is Lung Cancer caused from Smoking?  Maybe; maybe not

If any of these ... or their direct family line members have the fatigue of CFIDS (acquired compensated autoimmune hemolytic anemia)

... then they are harmed not by smoking as is generally thought, but by 2-butoxyethanol type chemicals. They have been poisoned.

Blood in urine? or abnormql peripheral blood?
Small-sized red blood cells ?

and this pattern

and more diagnostic helps