Jump to full article: The Mirror (uk), 2008-05-06
Author: Richard Smith
Intro: Veteran smoker Joe Drew turned 100 yesterday - with no sign of running out of puff.
The cricket fanatic celebrated by filling his pipe with his favourite tobacco and lighting up.
Joe started smoking 90 years ago in 1918, aged 10. The former gas fitter, who gets through 100 grams of his rare Erinmore mix a week, has used up around 300,000 grams of tobacco since then.
Not surprisingly, doctors have urged him to give up. . . .
I walk to the shop every day. I don't drink. My vice is cigars and the pipe. I never tried to quit."
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