CHAMPION SMOKER
LIVED TO BE EIGHTY-ONE. Not long ago there died in Holland a certain Mynheer van Klees, who could justly claim to have been the world’s greatest smoker. He seldom smoked less than a pound of tobacco a day, and sometimes managed to turn as many as ten pounds into blue clouds in a week! In spite of this he lived to be eighty-one. It is calculated that during his life-time he consumed eleven tons of tobacco—enough to make a pile as big as a large house. Another great smoker kept a careful record of his consumption for 45 years. During that time he enjoyed 628,713 cigars, which works out at 38 a day! It was lucky for him that he lived in Austria, where cigars could be obtained for less than a penny each.
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Southland Times, Issue 18964, 11 June 1923, Page 2
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136CHAMPION SMOKER Southland Times, Issue 18964, 11 June 1923, Page 2
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