Who, What, Why: How is Keith Richards still alive?  Keith
Richards on drugs and relationship with Mick Jagger  The Rolling
Stone's autobiography reveals a lifetime of substance abuse. Why
on earth hasn't it killed him?  His name is synonymous with rock
'n' roll excess, his memoirs detail a lifetime spent ingesting a
Herculean quantity of illegal drugs and he only gave up cocaine,
aged 62, after he split his head open falling from a tree while
foraging for coconuts.  At 66, Keith Richards' continued
survival is a source of widespread bafflement.  According to
addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever, director of the Promis
recovery centre in Richards' native Kent, there is only one
possible explanation for his longevity: "He must have the
constitution of an ox."  But Richards' own memoirs suggest he
may have been more careful with his intake than his bacchanalian
public persona implies.  The autobiography, Life, is candid
about the scope of his notorious drug-taking during his lengthy
career as the Rolling Stones' l