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.
Now that's a lot of smoking. :o
What an odd story. My Mom died of lung cancer recently.
Sorry to hear that. :'(
Some folks just don't understand statistics. Besides, for all we know, the woman would have lived to 130 had she not smoked.
Quote from: Barbara on December 19, 2004, 05:15:43 PM
What an odd story. My Mom died of lung cancer recently.
sorry about that
Wow, too bad my grandmother passed away recently at 71 smoking about 1/3 of that amount form lung cancer, directly related to smoking!
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 :(
the best is to never start
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