Mme Jeanne Calment,(21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) is listed as the world's oldest human whose birth date could be certified, died at age 122.
She had begun smoking as a young woman. At 117 she quit smoking (by that age she was just smoking two or three cigarettes per day because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable. She also said to her doctor: "Once you've lived as long as me, only then can you tell me not to smoke.
• The oldest people on Earth are all smokers.•
http://headrambles.com/smoking-out-the-truth/worlds-oldest-smokers/https://archive.vn/z1bg3• Nearly 80% of people diagnosed with lung cancer now are never smokers and ex smokers. •
http://www.gaetafund.org/blogging-for-joan/why-anti-smoking-campaigns-arent-enough-to-eliminate-lung-cancer-deathshttps://archive.vn/BixiG• Lungs taken from people who puffed a pack a day for more than 20 years safe for transplant. •
In fact, "Almost half of lung transplant patients were given the lungs taken from heavy smokers, with one in five coming from donors who had smoked at least one packet of cigarettes a day for 20 or more years."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lungs-pack-day-smokers-safe-transplant-study-finds-flna1c8154340https://archive.vn/29Fw3 