I GOT E-CIG STUCK UP MY BUM!

NEWS that e- cigarettes are harmful to health came as no surprise to reformed smoker Arnold Atherton.

Because the 71- year- old from Swindon, Wilts, spent THREE HOURS in A& E with one of the devices lodged up his ARSE!

Widowed Arnold was a 60- a- day man until 2013 when he switched to one of the Chinese- made electric fags.

He said: “It completely changed my life. After a week I felt so much better, and after a month I had stopped wheezing and was seriously considering taking up jogging.”

But Arnold’s healthy new lifestyle came to an abrupt end when – for reasons he’s still not clear about himself – he inserted the £ 23.99 device into his anus.

The retired railwayman sighed: “I have no idea what came over me. I’m not ‘ one of them’ – and have never had anything up there before.

“I even refuse to use suppositories for my piles. I can only imagine the idea came to me because they had a rum promotion down the Legion.

“Anyway, after it went up, it didn’t come down. I thought I’d sleep on it and let nature take its course.”

But next morning, the e- cig had not shown itself and Arnold decided to take action.

He said: “You hear about these things exploding and the last thing I wanted was my arse blowing off. So I went to A& E.

“It was very embarrassing, as you can imagine, and I was waiting almost three hours. But they finally saw me and got it out in a trice.

“They offered it back to me but I declined. It wouldn’t feel right using it again. Not after this.” REAR- LY BAD: X- ray shows e- cig lodged in Arnold’s arse