Keith Richards's smoking habits and the death of a rare orchid

The Rolling Stone's cigarette played a part in the end of a Phalaenopsis amabilis at the New York Public LibraryIt is not exactly on the scale of trashing a hotel room, but Keith Richards has been blamed for killing an orchid at a library in New York, sending the plant on a death spiral with a few puffs of cigarette smoke.The orchid, a Phalaenopsis amabilis, was at the main branch of the New York Public Library, where Richards spoke almost six weeks ago. The Rolling Stone had been given a tour o...

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