Cigarettes can make you live till 105!

[fuzzyferrets]

Cigarettes can make you live till 105!



  Marie Ellis, a woman lived for 105 years despite smoking nearly 500,000 cigarettes during her lifetime.

Ellis died of old age heart failure recently, and was cremated clutching a packet of her favourite Benson and Hedges Gold and flowers shaped like cigarettes on top of her coffin.

Ellis, who remained single throughout her life, smoked almost 15 cigarettes a day or 5,500 a year from the age of 15.

Meanwhile, the Eaton Lodge nursing home in Westgate London is erecting a concrete ashtray in the garden as a memorial, which can be used by the staff during smoking-breaks.

"She smoked right to the end," The Mirror quoted matron Maria Kallis as saying.

[Homer]

Now that's a lot of smoking. :o

[Barbara]

What an odd story.  My Mom died of lung cancer recently.

[Homer]

Sorry to hear that. :'(

[bob@pogopal]

Some folks just don't understand statistics. Besides, for all we know, the woman would have lived to 130 had she not smoked.

[fuzzyferrets]

What an odd story.  My Mom died of lung cancer recently.

sorry about that

[soupsportz]

Wow, too bad my grandmother passed away recently at 71 smoking about 1/3 of that amount form lung cancer, directly related to smoking!

[Dream Faerie]

I quit smoking on Labor Day.. I started whwn I was 12 years old, I just turned 34 when I quit. But I betchya it wouldnt have been worth it to quit after so long :(

[fuzzyferrets]

the best is to never start

[Dream Faerie]

Once I realized that I was already hooked  :( I do have to say that I LOVE the Anti-Smoking commercials I have been seeing lately  >:D