Sadly, Mary Ellis passed away this month. She was 105.

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 & Hedges cigarettes.

Ms. Ellis smoked for 90 years. When she died, she was still puffing away nearly a pack a day. So much for the theory that smoking "causes" cancer.