Chain-Smoking Marathoner Finishes In Under 3.5 Hours And He's Done It Before

2022-11-17

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While cigarettes certainly aren’t a performance-enhancing drug, some on Chinese social media questioned whether he was leaving his competitors in more than a cloud of dust.Smoking “should be banned” from the race, wrote one Weibo commenter worried about the effects of secondhand smoke, according to a translation.Cigarettes are widely known to cause shortness of breath, headaches, emphysema, lung cancer and heart problems, among other issues.RelatedChinaWeird NewsmarathonSomeone Just Paid A Lot Of Money For Steve Jobs' Old SandalsFacial Hair Fanatics Claim They've Set World Record For Largest Beard ChainMike Tyson, Evander Holyfield Come Together For 'Ear-ie' Cannabis Collaboration

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