KingoftheCove wrote:chain smoking alcoholics living into their 80s
Let us all remember WWII veteran Richard Overton, who until a couple of months ago was still with us, at age 112. He had smoked 12 cigars a day for the previous NINETY (90) YEARS (that's about 400,000 cigars), drank whiskey and ate ice cream daily, etc.
Speaking of such things, this is unrelated to cigars, but it still blows my damned mind: In 1922, during the Warren Harding presidency and the Teapot Dome scandal, also the year Betty White was born, you could've walked into a certain barbershop and gotten a haircut from barber Anthony Mancinelli.
YOU STILL CAN TODAY! And, he still works FULL-TIME (40 HOURS PER WEEK)!Some of his current customers' fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers all had their hair cut by him. Four generations!
He's 108 years old, was born in 1911 and started working as a barber at age 11, in 1922. Also, he recently proclaimed that he wants to reach a full 100 years of full-time barbering. Only 3 years from now, God willing, he actually will!
He has a very good chance of hitting that mark. He stands all day with no problem, has all his teeth and takes no medication. He reports having no aches or pains of any kind. He is self-sufficient, lives alone, cooks his own meals, does his own laundry, shopping and gardening, pays his own bills and drives himself to work every day. His current barbershop's owner said last year in a New York Times article:
Quote:"He never calls in sick. I have young people with knee and back problems, but he just keeps going. He can do more haircuts than a 20-year-old kid."
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