[elkfersupper]

Are you using anecdotal evidence as indicating smokers live a long life?

It is actual evidence, not anecdotal.

Anecdotal evidence would be that busybodies tend to die young because they go through life agonizing that somebody, somewhere, might be having fun.

[Drango]

It is actual evidence, not anecdotal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

Anecdotal evidence

(2) Evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalizing from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example "my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of 99" does not disprove the proposition that "smoking markedly increases the probability of cancer and heart disease at a relatively early age". In this case, the evidence may itself be true, but does not warrant the conclusion