Smoker, 100, puffs on 500,000 cigarettes
A 100-year-old smoker claims to have puffed on nearly half a million cigarettes.
''I keep saying I'll quit when they put the prices up, but that's not going to happen now.''
Dorothy Howe has smoked 15 a day since she first inhaled a cigarette aged just 16, and while she keeps vowing to give up due to today's higher prices, she just can't seem to quit the habit.
She said: ''I'm alive and can lift my elbows.
''When I started smoking, they cost 11d for 20.
''I keep saying I'll quit when they put the prices up, but that's not going to happen now.''
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