The 225-cigarettes-a-day claim

1929

Zog was said to smoke around 225 cigarettes a day, a figure that gave him a claim to being the heaviest smoker in the world in 1929. The number appears in reference works with the hedge 'was said to have' and no primary source. It is a reputation attached to him rather than a measured fact. The commonly cited figure is 150 a day; Wikipedia gives 225. Neither number is traceable to a source, and 225 cigarettes would mean one roughly every four waking minutes for a year. Present this as an anecdote about his reputation, not a biographical fact.