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

Disease and death come down to luck.

Getting sick, and dying, is like winning a terrible lottery.

Every bad choice you make, every bad lifestyle you life, is like buying extra tickets to the “Lottery of Disease and Death.”

It’s still a lottery though. The person who buys one lottery ticket might win, while someone who buys 10,000 lottery tickets doesn’t.

Your chances of getting cancer might just be 1%, but that still means 1 out of every 100 people in that group will get it. Someone else might have a 75% chance of getting cancer. But that still means some of those people won’t get it.

All we can do is work to improve our odds.

Worth noting that while you’re improving your odds by being healthy, you’re also GREATLY improving your quality of life.

I’m older, and exercise every day. My friends my age are all heavier, and all complain about chronic issues, about daily aches, pains, and joke that just getting out of bed is a pain. I don’t have any of those issues.

I might have a heart attack and kick it at 75 just like them though, or even before them. But whatever the case is, my quality of life from today until then is absolutely going to be better than theirs.