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• Cigarette afficionado: Collector a nonsmoker 

The world's a pretty lonely place for Bernd Goerlich.

He's the only person in the entire world who collects cigarettes. And he doesn't even smoke. . . .

He has more than 6,500 examples of cigarettes from around the world and from different time periods. His collection started in 1958 when he was 14 and noticed the different brands, colors and sizes of the cigarettes. . . .

His collection also is a demonstration of the evolution of cigarettes from unfiltered to mouthpieces to charcoal filters to modern-day filters. Goerlich even has a gold-filtered mouthpiece for a cigarette from 1914.

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