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To: shelterguy

Longevity depends a lot on a person’s genes.

My dad smoked 2 packs a day for decades and drank heavily into his late 40s, had high cholesterol, hypertension and heart disease, with a 4 way bypass along the way.

I never touched cigarettes ever, and low and behold, I have high cholesterol, hypertension and heart disease, with a Stent in 2016.


18 posted on 07/22/2025 2:47:08 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

“””Longevity depends a lot on a person’s genes.”””

Yup. My in laws were the cleanest living people you could ever find. Both dead of cancer by the age of 50.


21 posted on 07/22/2025 2:52:41 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: V_TWIN

My ex wife’s aunt started smoking at 9. She smoked one after another till she died at 85. She was on oxygen the last 3 years of her life and was still smoking.


22 posted on 07/22/2025 2:52:51 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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