Smoking “Monkey” Kicking the Habbit

A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

“Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them — a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday.”

Another chimp has been having trouble kicking the habit.

A female chimpanzee at the zoo in Zhengzhou, China, took up smoking out of frustration at her mate’s lack of prowess in the, um, tree.

Maybe she could find sympathy at the zoo in Bloemfontein, South Africa, where Charlie, the very macho male member of her species, became a positive nicotine fiend after learning how to bum smokes off zoo visitors.

Sure makes a monkey out of smokers.

Information from blog.qusan.com/2005/05/kicking-habit-is-hard.html