Stars that lost their lives because of a love for smoking

For many years Eliot had suffered from lung-related health problems including bronchitis and tachycardia caused by heavy smoking.[citation needed] He died of emphysema at his home in Kensington in London, on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were taken to St. Michael’s Church in East Coker, the village in Somerset from which his Eliot ancestors had emigrated to America. A wall plaque commemorates him with a quotation from his poem “East Coker”, “In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning.”