Man Lives To 101 Smoking Three Packs of Malboro Red A Day

Cincinnati, Ohio resident, Theodore "Teddy" Littarski past away over the weekend at the age of 101. What makes his death - at such an advanced age - that much more remarkable is the fact that he was a life-long heavy smoker; habitually puffing his way through three boxes or 60 Malboro Red cigarettes per day from the age of 16. Amazingly his death has been provisionally declared as the result of "natural causes" and the years of smoking according to his family and many local friends did not stop him from enjoying an otherwise very active and seemingly healthy lifestyle. He was known to attend the local gym 3 times per week and walked his dog, Jeremiah every day without fail. What makes this story so remarkable and this man's constitution worthy of further investigation is the genetic make up that rendered him able to not only survive for so long, but to thrive whilst an estimated 435,000 Americans die annually from tobacco related illness and disease.