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

Death is a diceroll. You roll a dice with 1000 sides, and if you get a 1, you die that day.

Smoking gives you more dice to roll. Being unfit, doing drugs, obesity, gives you more dice to roll. Suddenly you’re rolling 10 dice a day and your odds of hitting that 1 go up and up.

But you can still get unlucky and roll a 1 on your first roll without all that. You can still get lucky and not roll that 1 over and over even with 100 dice.