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

Bc life AINT FAIR MOTHER FUCKERS!!!

Sorry I am one wine glass deep and it doesn’t take much.

My father who never smoke, barely drank, lived an “ok” lifestyle got pancreatic cancer and was gone by year four. WE WERE SHOCKED he got four years. That cancer ravaged everything about him until he was just an angry bitter dying shell of himself.

My stepdad has smoked a pack of cigarettes almost a day since he was 15, he is 72 now. And is still just trotting along. He doesn’t have cancer but he has COPD, dementia, blocked arteries, diabetes, etc… and he is still just trotting along. I call him- everything but cancer!

So yeah… it doesn’t make sense.