112-Year-Old Woman Claims Smoking is the Reason for Her Longevity

You may find this hard to believe but a 112-year-old woman has credited her longevity to chain smoking 30 cigarettes a day – for 95 years.

Batuli Lamichhane was born in March 1903 in Nepal and has been smoking since she was 17. She claims this habit has helped her outlive almost everyone else in her village, even her own children.

She smokes as many as 30 cigarettes a day.

I have been smoking for over 95 years. There is nothing wrong with smoking.

Batuli’s advice on smoking is to avoid ‘commercially made’ cigarettes. Instead, she smokes locally made ‘beedis’ – tobacco wrapped in tendu leaf.