Posted on 09/24/2010 3:39:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A CHAIN smoking pensioner has celebrated his 100th birthday despite puffing on nearly 300,000 cigarettes — and glugging a glass of whisky a day.
Old soldier Arthur Langran - who survived being blown up by a grenade in the Second World War - claims the key to his longevity is doing what everyone tells him not to.
The dad-of-two started smoking aged 20 and has gone through at least TEN-A-DAY ever since. That works out at an incredible 292,000 cigarettes.
As well as being partial to the odd cigar he also sups a dram of Macallan single malt Scotch right before he goes to bed and credits it for his long life.
But his tipple a day over 80 years totals a staggering 900 BOTTLES.
He said: "I always say the secret is doing things you're not told to do. I have been smoking since I was 20 and I still enjoy it - and a pipe."
Arthur, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, downed pints of ale at his local pub to celebrate the milestone.
His eldest son Peter, 62, revealed doctors had told his father to KEEP smoking — despite having gone through 292,000 in total already.
Peter said: "These days he rolls himself five or six a day but used to smoke more and has his pipe once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
"The doctor has said it's not worth getting him to give up the cigarettes."
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I did... AND I DID.
followed Atkins and dropped 70 pounds.
Then I effing quit smoking... and with no change in diet.. gained 90 pounds
US GOVERNMENT..... EFF YOU and all your HOLIERTHANTHOU BULL****
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I dont know about the ciggies but the Gubmint food pyramid is upside down.
Want diabetes? follow the goobermints advice
don’t smoke, don’t drink, eat right, exercise ...
Will NOT make you live LONGER...
It will just SEEM LIKE IT to those around you
***I think 10’s of millions have died from eating hydrogenated margarine instead of butter.***
Blue Bonnet finally did my grandma in; that and Crisco (she made the best french toast deep fried in Crisco, but I digress) or maybe it was the smoking? She was so young when she died, only 79.
My grandmother died from smoking at the age of 96. She was puffing on a smoke at the top of the stairs in the nursing home when a staff member came up to her and told her to put it out. When granny punched her out, granny slipped and fell down the stairs and broke her neck...........
Remember Oleo? You got that blob of white goo and a yellow food coloring capsule to work into it?
Crisco was good for a flaky pie crust, but I shun the stuff.
I remember churning butter with my Great Grandma and how glorious the end product was on home made bread.
After that, who cares?
A coworker told me her mother had cancer and then said how unfair it was because her mother exercised, ate right, never smoked and didn’t drink. As though cancer was something for all those other slackers and not her perfect mother. This kind of thinking is so wrong and delusional.
I like your other posts on this thread too.
He did pretty good.
This thinking is pervasive.
Way too funny. Even funnier if true!
French toast in PORK LARD!
Howdy cousin
And boy was Crisco the best stuff for making pie crust. Too bad, I avoid the stuff like the plague now, but I did buy a supply that I keep in the freezer because one day it will probably be banned, or the product will change for the worse.
I figure an occasional pumpkin pie made with Crisco won't kill you. Now the never empty glass of Vodka, another story.
If hadn’t done that he might have lived to 150.
I aint that old either. But I learned about food at an early age.
I remember the olden days when I was a tyke, my Great grandparents made stuff the old way.
Bread, butter, pork lard, sausage. They lived close to 100 doing stuff the old way.
Then the supermarkets came in during the 60’s/70’s selling oleo and margarine and that sort of shelf stable stuff.
It was then that folks started dying in their mid 50’s
That’s just my experience.
BTW cold Butter makes a mean pie crust.
I think Grammer used cold lard
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