--- title: Google Street View Captures Husband Smoking After He Told Wife He Quit description: He promised to quit after having a heart attack canonical: https://time.com/3965742/husband-smoking-google-street-view/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-21T14:38:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:04.067Z og:title: Google Street View Captures Husband Smoking After He Told Wife He Quit og:description: He promised to quit after having a heart attack og:url: https://time.com/3965742/husband-smoking-google-street-view/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Street View Captures Husband Smoking After He Told Wife He Quit twitter:description: He promised to quit after having a heart attack twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Google Street View Busts Husband Smoking After He Told Wife He Quit > Sponsored content. 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"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette" is just one of the phrases we don't hear anymore - here's a quick look at America's complicated relationship with the addictive habit._ by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 21, 2015 2:38 PM UTC by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 21, 2015 2:38 PM UTC A man was caught out by his wife after she found an image of him on Google Street View having a sneaky cigarette in their driveway. Donald Ryding, 58, from Merseyside, U.K., had told his wife that he kicked the habit after his doctor advised him to improve his lifestyle, including his dietary habits, after he had a heart attack. His wife, Julie Ryding, thought something was up after he stormed out of the house when she confronted him over a stash of empty cookie wrappers in his car. Hearing that the Street View car had been to her street that week, Julie went online and found an image of him smoking in the drive. According to her, the camera had pictured her husband before Google started blurring out faces. “I couldn’t believe it — there was no denying it now we’d seen him smoking,” [she told _The Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11751576/Smoking-husband-who-promised-to-quit-is-caught-out-on-Google-Street-View.html). “When Street View first launched, they didn’t blur out faces, but there was no need to with him — he was covered by a cloud of smoke anyway. Even though the incriminating picture has been replaced by a more up-to-date version, Ryding can still be seen in the archives of Google Map images. “You can’t believe the trouble he caused that day,” she said. “He still smokes, but he has cut down.” ## Transcript [00:00] This night work's kinda rough, isn't it? That's right. But [00:03] a Camel's always a pleasure. [ MUSIC ] Yes, [00:18] in a cigarette, it's the tobacco that counts. And Lucky [00:21] Strike means prime tobacco. Like a lot of his [00:24] teammates, and so many big league players, Jim gets [00:27] more pleasure from Camels than from any other [00:30] cigarette. [ MUSIC ] [00:37] You'll be interested to know how the doctor's of [00:39] America answered that question. Tens of thousands of [00:43] doctors. Doctors in all parts of the country. In every [00:47] state of the union. According to the survey, more [00:50] doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. 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