In this undated photo released Saturday by the [North] Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visits a newly built football stadium in North Pyongan Province. /KCNA-Yonhap
Posted on 06/23/2010 4:51:50 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il Lights Up Again
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has apparently taken up smoking again after kicking the habit following a massive stroke in August 2008, South Korean government sources say.
An ashtray sits at Kim's right hand in a Korean Central News Agency photograph showing the dictator at a football stadium in North Pyongan Province on Saturday. "If a stroke patient smokes again, the chances of a relapse increase," said one neurologist. And for diabetics like Kim "smoking can cause heart disease by damaging blood vessels," he added. Kim apparently underwent heart surgery around May 2007.
In this undated photo released Saturday by the [North] Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visits a newly built football stadium in North Pyongan Province. /KCNA-Yonhap |
"Kim Jong-il apparently smoked Marlboro cigarettes and drank pink champagne at dinner with Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun in August last year," said one government official. "It looks like Kim Jong-il started smoking again around the first half of last year."
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Two despicable tyrants smoke: The Kenyan and Chia Pet.
Coincidence? I think not.
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The fact that the chairwoman of Hyundai fraternized with this mass murderer is reason enough for me to lose interest in owning a Hyundai car.
The fact that the chairwoman of Hyundai fraternized with this mass murderer is reason enough for me to lose interest in owning a Hyundai car.
Tiger I got question should we keep this guy smoking drinking hasten his demise LOL!
I feel the same way about Red Chinese WalMart
Smoking will eventually kill you! It just depends upon other things - you will die, somewhere between 65-100... Just wait for it.
A pack a day of Camels nailed my dad at 60.
Yes he should do as much smoking, drinking and drugs as possible.
I think he hitting the smokes and drinking probably recuprate with those hot Russia babes that Vlady may have supply him with too LOL!
Yea..Yea... I know. That is the established factoid... Actually, for smokers, it would most probably reduce blood pressure to have a cigarette and be beneficial.
My emphasis was on the government statistics - everybody who dies between 55-100 and smokes dies from smoking. It’s a fact...just check the statistics...geez.
Just having a bit of fun here...
My father had 3 heart attacks and 2 strokes, the 2nd which left him mostly immobile with about a 100-word vocabluary. After all that my mother found him with a pack of smokes in the pocket of his robe.
It’s not a problem! With the strength of his superhuman juche, Kim can will the cancer-causing agents to produce life-giving nutrients!
Great... and that says what? Maybe you are doing the same extrapolation that the government research does to raise taxes on tobacco.
Just what correlation are you making and where are your facts?
A pack a day of Camels nailed my dad at 60
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Condolences.
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At age 51 I was up to almost 4 packs of (regular) Camels + a case or so of Budweiser a day when I went ‘cold turkey’ on both at the same time.
Really lucky the ‘shock’ didn’t get me but I survived and am rolling along some 19+ years later.
Not bragging etc, just saying.
After all Kim Jung-il invented smoking as well as an invisible cell phone to advise his soccer coach at the world cup and the very world cup itself.
I quit smoking in March of 1986. I’d just received a new Chevy Caprice company car and didn’t want to stink it up with tobacco. I did it cold turkey and didn’t tell anyone. Five or six months into my program, friends began to notice I wasn’t smoking and they were supportive.
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