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Interesting fact: Saltykov‑Shchedrin smoked a lot. He started smoking while he was still studying at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. By the age of 30, the harmful habit had reached monstrous proportions. The writer carried not a cigarette case, but an army officer’s kit bag full of cigarettes. According to his contemporaries, the writer never took a cigarette out of his mouth, smoking up to 100 a day!

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