This is the moment a Turkish smoker is given a cigarette to satisfy his nicotine addiction even before he calls out of the hole to the safety and distracted away by rescuers.

The rescue attempt of the man named Soner Tuğtekin was carried out in the Turkish city of Adıyaman after he was buried in the rubble when his apartment collapsed.

But the cigarette was getting in the way of trying to wrap his arms under the blanket in the stretcher, and one of the wrestlers 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 a cigarette, saying he’d 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 you approach 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 elements of the 3rd Army Command then picked him up and carried him to safety.