This is the moment rescuers pull out from the rubble a man with a cigarette in his mouth in Adiyaman, Turkey, on February 8. The survivor had been trapped underground for days. Unable to smoke, the first thing he did when he reached the surface was light up a cigarette.

The man, Soner Tugtekin, was buried in the debris after his block of flats collapsed following three powerful earthquakes that battered the country on February 6.

In the video, a member of the emergency services can be heard saying in Turkish "Uncle, just drop that cigarette and lay on your back. I'll give you one once we're at the hospital".

Despite the rescuer telling him to drop the cigarette, the man keeps trying to smoke it. It has been reported that he said he would rather have a cigarette than go to the hospital.

This footage was filmed and produced 8 February 2023.

This is the moment a Turkish smoker is given a cigarette to satisfy his nicotine addiction even before he is pulled from the debris of a collapsed building by rescuers.

The rescue attempt of the man named Soner Tugtekin was carried out in the Turkish city of Adiyaman after he was buried in the rubble when his apartment collapsed. But the cigarette was getting in the way of him trying to wrap his arms under a blanket on a stretcher, and one of the rescuers can be heard saying: "Uncle just drop that cigarette and lay on your back. I'll give you one once we're at the hospital." But he appears to be completely unfazed and continues to attempt to smoke the cigarette, saying he would rather have a cigarette and did not want to go to hospital, amazing rescuers.

Trapped underground, he was apparently unable to smoke, and the first thing he did as he reached the surface was light up a cigarette. As he is strapped to a stretcher in order to be taken to hospital, he still has a cigarette in his mouth as rescuers from the Turkish Engineering Battalion of the 3rd Army Command then picked him up and carried him to safety.