- If there was only a way to make second hand smokeless cigarettes...
Posted on 02/17/2005 11:44:48 AM PST by tbird5
Nursing home staff 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, southeast England, in early December and was cremated on Tuesday, clutching a packet of her favorite Benson and Hedges 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,'" said matron Maria Kallis, who commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow chrysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin.
The enigmatic Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago.
Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious among staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee.
Yeah,but she went out of her way to avoid second hand smoke.
I remember this story.
And this is news, why?
Puff list ping!
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just think this poor old woman could have lived to be 106 had she quit those 'demon' cigarettes!
If there was only a way to make second hand smokeless cigarettes...
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Maybe he should have had the African artist group in Ghana carve him a giant cigar coffin.
If nothing else, it's amusing.
Yup that'll teach me to think about my dad smoking cigars, and not read the article first :O)
So, if she died at 105 and started smoking when she was 15, that means she was a smoker in 1915. That was not a particularly lady-like thing to do back then. I wonder what else she was up to.
The Hannity thread is getting played out?
My kinda gal!
And this is news, why?
Well, she only lived until 105. Damn cancer sticks!
Yeah, probably... we could always go back to immigration or pot legalization. Or we could just hit ourselves with hammers.
There's a poing in there.
civil war errr... war between the states threads? ;-)
Buried my grand mother with her corn cob pie at age 97.
She use to roll her own cigs in the 30's.
I saw on the news that coffee every day reduces the risk of liver cancer by 50 %.
A thought:If they knew what caused cancer wouldn't they have a cure?
My mother didn't smoke and died of lung cancer at 77.
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