Cigs good for something

A story from April 2008...
A Chinese man, Rao Jiacang, 51, plastered cigarette packets over himself after running out of money for crucial heart surgery.
Somehow he has survived for ten years, despite his beating heart being gruesomely visible through the paper folds.
Side note: Mr. Jiacang is dextrocardiac - that is, his heart is not on the left hand side of his body, but slightly to the right.
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