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WhiteRat · #1

Wowzas. Now I don't feel guilty about smoking 14 cigs in less than 10 hours:

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Committed smoker cremated with her fags

Nursing home staff have paid tribute to a 105-year-old British woman who had smoked since the age of 15 by cremating her with a packet of cigarettes and laying a large floral cigarette on her coffin.

Marie Ellis died of natural causes at the Eaton Lodge Nursing Home in Kent, south-east England, in early December and was cremated clutching a packet of her favourite cigarettes.

"We will always remember her for her smoking because the first thing she asked when she got up was 'can I have a cigarette'," matron Maria Kallis said.

Ms Kallis commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow crysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin.

The enigmatic Ms Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago.

Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious amongst staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee.

Staff played the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes at Ms Ellis's funeral and are planning a memorial concrete ashtray for her in the nursing home garden, where her ashes will also be buried.

-Reuters

EisigerBiskuit · #2

... This just confuses me. No cancer? Have I been lied to? Giant twinkie-looking ciggarette?

Cosmo Electrolux · #3

she's the exception, not the norm.

What a hottie...... :/

dreaddi · #4

15 a day isn't really so much though. Most smokers I know smoke at least a pack a day.

Burger Lord · #5

105 years? So that whole each cigarette takes 15 minutes of your life away thing was crap? or what?

Matt Harty · #6

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she's the exception, not the norm.

Perndog · #7

15 cigarettes a day. Started at 15 years old, died at 105.

I wonder if some guy bet his friends he could adjust the figures so they'd all match and no one would notice.