Broken Bushknee, Alberta — 28 year-old Lyle Mandes takes a large haul from his new inhaler. It’s clear and it makes a “tooting” sound, much like a plastic harmonica one could win at a local carnival by perhaps throwing a dart at a large balloon.
“It helps me to live,” he claims, although due to his raspy voice, it is difficult to discern exactly what Lyle is saying. Lyle’s smoke-a-thon display was erected at The Grand West Shopping Center. Sitting cross-legged in a Plexiglas box suspended over the mall’s majestic water fountain, the event raised over $200 mostly in nickels and dimes. It took Lyle a mere 76 hours of round-the-clock puffing to go through the 1,767 Number 7 cigarettes. After lighting the 1,768th cigarette he suffered nine consecutive heart attacks and two mini strokes.
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