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

My mother is the laziest person ever. She would drive the three hundred yards from her apartment to the grocery store. She smoked for 50 years and only gave it up when it became too expensive. To this day, she drinks at least two martinis a day, one during the 5:00 news and one during Wheel of Fortune.

My mother is 91. She looks as if she could be 75.

Genetics.