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How is this guy still alive...

DaTT

DaTT

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The guy I work with is the man in question. He is 52, smokes at least 2 packs a day (maybe more), eats fast food every work day for lunch (not sure about weekends), and is an alcoholic. And very very lazy.

EDIT: added lazy
 
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I've known people that were long time alcoholics that actually seemed to be kept alive better when they were alcoholics. For example one guy I knew was an alcoholic since he was a teenager; when he finally got a DUI and was forced to become sober, he died just a few years later. It was almost like the alcohol in his system was keeping his blood thinner or something along those lines.
 
I know many people like this. It seems every heavy smoker/drinker I know last forever. The healthy ones end up with cancer or something that takes them too early.

Hell, my best friend's dad (also my fomer boss) chain smoked unfiltered Camels for 30 years (filtered for additional 10), was in a major car crash at 16 years old (full body traction and hospital stay for a year) and has been shot with a shot gun twice (1 in the face, once in the knee). that fucker is still kicking perfectly fine. He did have a small hear attack a few years back and has thus stopped smoking, but he just keeps on ticking.
 
Some people just have the right genes to eat garbage, smoke like a chimney, and drink like a fish and live forever. Doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen.

Look at George Burns. Guy smoked cigars for probably 80+ years and lived to be 100.
 
Smoking only raises your chances of cancer by about 8%. Don't know about alcoholism, but doesn't it take a while to destroy your liver?
 
It's because the government likes to spread lies about vices and other things that the government doesn't approve of. So there's no reason he should be dead.
 
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Some people are frustratingly robust and just won't die despite their constant daily efforts to kill themselves. It's just another one of those life isn't fair moments, like my Gym teacher dying of a heart attack before the age of 30.
 
My great aunt is 90 and has been smoking since she was a teenager (doesn't drink though). She has diabetes and macular degeneration, but still has a sharp memory, and is a great storyteller. She lives alone, albeit with a caretaker. I am amazed that she is still alive.

She has outlived my grandmother, who never smoked, swam 3 times a week, played the piano and painted. My grandmother died a few years ago of heart failure, aged 87.

One commonality between the two of them is their relentlessly positive and upbeat outlook on life. I'm convinced that being happy and having a purpose in life is equally if not more important than diet, exercise and lifestyle choices.
 
I think everyone knows at least one person who seems indestructible no matter how bad the choices he/she makes are, and one person who lived a clean and virtuous life and still died of cancer before they reached middle age.

Most of us, however, are in the middle.
 
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