wannaliveto130yearsold?

A Gentleman in Bolivia, up in the mountains

is now the oldest known person in the world,

healthy and going strong for 130 years

he frequently chews coca leaves

Wikipedia Fact Break:
Coca is known throughout the world for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. The alkaloid content of coca leaves is low, between 0.25% and 0.77%.[2] This means that chewing the leaves or drinking coca tea does not produce the high (euphoria, megalomania) people experience with cocaine. Cocaine-free coca leaf extract is used in Coca-Cola.[3][4] Extraction of cocaine from coca requires complex chemical processes.


News Article Break:
Hobbling down a dirt path, Flores greets them with a raised arm, smiles and sits down on a rock. His gums bulge with coca leaf, a mild stimulant that staves off hunger. Like most Bolivian highlands peasants, he has been chewing it all his life.

as well as walks everywhere.
He added:'I've never been lazy. I always shared the cooking with my wife.
'We would only eat what we could find growing wild. We ate mostly skunk meat. I still go on long walks every day.'
Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394414/

Back to poem:
Another long living person smoked and only quit because she had gone blind and did not like asking others to light her cigarrette.