The latest punishment in hell gave a new meaning to 'lighting up'.


The small print says:
STEFAN SIGMOND, 29, from Cluj in Translyvania, set a record in Bucharest on 31 January, when he smoked 800 filter-tipped western cigarettes in less than six minutes through a special wheel-like device, breaking his 1995 record of 750. Last year he ate 29 boiled eggs in four minutes and - seperately - jumped into a lake from a 135ft (41m)-high platform. He will not, however, appear in the Guiness Book of Records, which now discourages gluttony and foolhardiness. (AP:R) 2 Feb 1996.