Smoking snake

Macro: HEY SNAKE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT CIGARETTE, THROW IT AWAY, YOU DON'T SMOKE, YOU'RE A SNAKE (or something like that)

The snake who's hooked on cigarettes:

You don't want to deny Po the pit viper his regular morning cigarette - he's guaranteed to throw a hissy fit.

That's because the three-year-old reptile from Taipei in Taiwan has become hooked on nicotine, thanks to his owner Sho Lau's 20-a-day habit.

'He is very tame and one day when I threw a cigarette butt away he went for it and seemed to enjoy having it in his mouth,' said 33-year-old Lau.

'One thing led to another and before long he was having one cigarette in the morning and another at night.'