why do people who smoke and drink heavily sometimes outlive heathy people?

Question

So people who exercise, eat healthy and never touch drugs or excess of any kind and do all they can to stay fit only to die so soon into their lives?

But then you have people who drink, smoke and do drugs in massive amounts for ages but they last for a long time all things considered and sometimes way older then other average people

This isn’t the case for all of them but it happens enough to be noticed

So how and why does this happen?

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

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Answer 1

It’s all genes. Yes, you are more than likely to get certain cancers if you smoke and drink heavily. A lot do, I have seen it in my family. I also knew a nieghbour that had a heart attack in his 30s, perfectly healthy, a jogger, no fat, he is still alive. I had an uncle who worked for oc transpo and drank alcohol like it was water his whole life and lived into his late 80s. I worked with a guy that was a health fanatic, perfect shape and muscle mass, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, no drugs. died in his sleep mid 50s.