[via Daily Swarm]

So, say you’re up for approximately 16 hours a day. And say you smoke 60 cigarettes during the course of one day. That’s about 3.75 cigarettes per hour, which is basically like smoking one cigarette every 15 minutes (and each cigarette takes about five minutes to smoke, so there’s really only a 10-minute break in between each cigarette)… all day long.

If you’re Ringo Starr, or a character on Mad Men, that’s how you do it.

But then, Starr kicked the habit (along with a few others) and attributes the turn around in his life to finding God again. I have to say, that’s quite the turn around indeed. I once cut back from five smokes a day to none and turned into Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Very not God-like. But perhaps there is a lesson in there somewhere. I do not know.

Another potential lesson to take away from all of this here, is that he made it to 70 years of age not looking nearly as ravished as someone who smoked 60 cigarettes a day for God knows how long should, so maybe cigarette label warnings should stick that in their pipe and smoke on it.

In conclusion, Ringo Starr is 70 and found God and doesn’t smoke 60 cigarettes a day anymore. Yay.

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