Picture someone suffering from cancer. The last thing anyone could gift a cancer patient is a smoke, right? Wrong. At least according to this 'cancer curing clinic' in Indonesia. Wait, what? The doctors at the Griya Balur clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia claim that smoking can actually cure patients suffering from Emphysema (a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness), cancer, and even autism! In fact, clinic owner Dr Gretha Zahar, while speaking to AFP, even claimed that her clinic has already cured over 60,000 people using tobacco smoke in the last decade and a half.

Is this really happening?

Not kidding one bit. Zahar truly believes that by manipulating the levels of mercury, smoking tobacco is the answer to the cure for every disease. Even ageing. She says,"Mercury is the cause of all illnesses. In my cigarettes — we call them Divine Cigarettes — there are scavengers that extract the mercury from the body."

If it really works, why isn't she putting her theories in front of the world?

To put it simply, because she doesn't want to. Zahar even mentions on her website that “she does not need to subject her theories to clinical tests or publish them in peer-reviewed journals. Nor does she have the money to ‘fight with Western medical scientists.” Which is a bit odd because if they're so confident of working miracles with smoking, they should be willing to put her theories up for review.