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102-year-old woman says: 'I'm giving up my cigarettes...after 95 years!'  

She lit her first cigarette as the lights were going out over Europe at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Since then she has reached for her trusty Player's Navy Blue (or, latterly, Embassy) through the ups and downs of all the following decades.

Until now. At the astonishing age of 102, Winne Langley has kicked the habit after 95 years because she 'didn't fancy it any more'.

Mrs Langley, who would share cigarettes with her friends at infant school, reckons she hasn't contracted cancer because she does not inhale. . . .

Since her first puff in 1914, Mrs Langley averaged five cigarettes a day, giving a total of more than 170,000 in her lifetime.

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