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

The healthier you are, the more likely you are to live long enough to die from something weird.

I went to a funeral today for a man who was super healthy and waterskied into his 70s. Got a brain tumor and it killed him within 7 months. The universe is capricious. We can only control what we can control. Skin cancer runs in my family, I have spent my life preventing it, I expect to live beyond when skin cancer would have got me to see what else does.