Some of the posters on this thread have commented on the fact this guy lived beyond the normal life expectancy for males. I’m not trying to be harsh, but this is a quality of life issue too. You smoke for fifty years, your final days aren’t going to be quality days.
COPD, hauling around an oxygen tank, coughing up a lung...
I’m not here to stop anyone from smoking. If folks want to, that’s okay with me. You do realize you push insurance rates up for yourself. This costs your family. Your decline hurts the ones you love. They’d like to have a healthy you around for another decade.
Please don’t make comments that serve to mitigate the negative health problems associated with smoking.
The thing is that life expectancy at birth factors in quality of medical care and health standards at the time you are born, as health care is always improving your life expectancy will continue to go up as you age.
I would rather sleep in the woods in a hollow log than stay you and let you treat me like a dog.
Who’s footing the bill?