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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
The man smoked cigarettes and drank heavily until his 50s. There is hope!
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Originally Posted by Barkworm
In the end, it's all down to luck. I don't know if you're familiar with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the guy was a maniacal chain smoker all his life and died just six weeks before his 97th birthday.
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It's a combination of many factors: Diet, healthy habits(no smoking, no drugs and no heavy drinking, etc.), genetics and, as you said, also luck.
We all know one case or two of someone who smoked like a chimney or someone who drank a whole bottle of whiskey every night and yet, somehow, managed to live to ripe old age.
In my area alone I can think of this doctor who was a huge chain smoker. He died in his late 70s. I dunno what the cause of his death was, but I seriously doubt tobacco was what killed him in the end. Had he never smoked at all, then what? He'd have been immortal or some sh*t?
There's also this old man who works for a local funerary agency and I see him smoking outside the agency every single day during one his breaks. He must be in his 80s at this point because he was quite old already 20 years ago.
As for alcohol, there's always the resident drunkard in every single neighbourhood, town or village. And they usually don't die exactly young either. Apparently you can survive as an alcoholic for 20-30 years in a row, who would have guessed?