How cigarettes can help you live longer.

I am stuck on Camels, 'cause Camels are stuck on me.

Never mind nicotine patches - a DIY patient is using cigarette packets to cover up a gaping hole in his chest. Rao Jiacang plastered the packets over himself after running out of money for crucial heart surgery. Somehow he has survived for ten years, despite his beating heart being gruesomely visible through the paper folds. But he is now desperate for a donor to come forward to pay for proper treatment to cover over the wound measuring seven by three inches. [...] Local doctor Wan Fi said: "It's a miracle that Rao could have lived so many years with such a massive opening in his chest."

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