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

Genetics and incredible luck play big parts in stuff like this. Clean living can definitely improve your odds, but you might just have a higher probability to get some sort of cancer or other illness because the genetic lottery was against you. Otherwise, we’d have been able to crack the code by now and extend everyone’s lives. 😀

But look at it this way, medical science and modern infrastructure have been improving those odds steadily for a very long time. If you compare average lifespans at any point in time until now, even within the past 100 years, it’s improved dramatically because more and more people have access to better medical care, clean water, etc.