‘Star Trek’ star Leonard Nimoy ‘doing OK’ after lung disease diagnosis

Veteran actor Leonard Nimoy, best known as Spock in the 1960s television series "Star Trek" and a string of feature films that followed, said he was "doing OK" after being diagnosed with lung disease and urged fans on Thursday to quit smoking. Quit now," Nimoy tweeted to his 810,000 followers. In Nimoy's case, the actor said, he was diagnosed despite having quit smoking 30 years ago. Just can't walk distances," and he signed off with "LLAP," an abbreviation of his character's trademark phrase, "live long and prosper." Nimoy first revealed in a Twitter message posted last week that he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a severe lung ailment that the U.S. surgeon general has concluded is linked to smoking.