Is it the Cigarette that Relaxes You, or Just the Actions of Smoking?
Published on April 10, 2009 8:15 AM
Smoking is harmful for people’s health but it not kills all people. For example a pensioner, Winnie Langley, has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigarette from a candle on her birthday cake.
Winnie started cigarettes smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old, and has got through five a day ever since.
And she never has any intention of quitting, even after the smoking was banned even in public places.
At her 100th birthday party Winnie said: "I have smoked ever since infant school and I have never thought about quitting. There were not all the health warnings like there are today when I started. It was the done thing."
Winnie, from Croydon, South London, also added that tobacco has never made her ill.
She has outlived a husband, Robert, and son, Donald, who died two years ago, aged 72.
The 100-year-old said that smoking helped calm her nerves during the two World Wars, and that’s why she will never quit. In those hard moments her best friend was cigarette, and she will never give up only because now is better. She thinks that if she will quit then she will betray her best friend.
She said: "A lot of people smoked during the war. It helped steady the nerves."
Despite the numerous health warnings, Mrs. Langley reported that she never suffered because of smoking only because she never inhaled the cig smoke.
In fact a lot of researchers think that Mrs. Langley is the exception to the rule. Smoking does not steady people’s nerves. It only makes them more shake! Relaxation is the answer, NOT A CIGARETTE. Take a break, but without the nicotine.
