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

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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?

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Imagine you’re in a lottery, and the prize is cancer.
There’s a big metal round cage with tickets in it, and the skeletal hand of death reaches in to pull out tickets. Most of the tickets are blank, but for just being alive, there’s at least one in there with your name.

You decide to start smoking and more tickets with you name go on. Drinking, a few more. More cancer causing habits and you keep adding more tickets with your name.

But it’s all probability. One person could do every vice and luck out, and another could do everything right to reduce their risk, but it pulls out the ticket that was just for being alive.

This doesn’t explain the complex intercellular reasons, but more the statistical reasons.

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