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Chimp smokes last cigarette

A chimpanzee which became addicted to smoking cigarettes has died from old age having managed to live at least 10 years longer than most chimps.

‘Charlie the Smoking Chimp’ was famous for his habit, picked up from visitors to his South African zoo, of smoking lit cigarettes.

But the zoo announced that the ape had finally died, aged 52. Most chimpanzees live to around 40.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .