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smokes like a chimney

Then there was "Woodbine Willy", who also lived top o` town, in a house all the rooms of which he had papered entirely of Woodbine cigarette packets, having smoked the entire contents himself.

For this remarkable feat a representative from a well-known tobacco manufacturer arranged to reward Willy for his loyalty to the weed and arrived at his humble home somewhere behind the church, bearing a cheque and accompanied by a press agent to record the ceremony.

Unfortunately, they found that poor Willy had suddenly stopped smoking on account of having died the day before, something apparently having been wrong with his lungs.

 

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