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Still smoking, 460,000 cigarettes later

Wed, 13 Nov, 2013 - 00:00

ENGLAND: A woman has reached her 100th birthday despite smoking half a million cigarettes during her life.

Dorothy Howe took her first drag aged 16 and has puffed her way through 15 every day since which means she has smoked about 460,000 cigarettes over the last 84 years.

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