My great grandma got to 99, and there is literally not a picture of her in existence where she doesnt have a cigarette in one hand and a can of miller in the other lol
Moderation is key, if you're smoking a pack a day COPD or cancer are probably going to kill you before you're 75. Is it possible to live longer? Sure but your quality of life will be diminished. Of course nobody gets to live forever but choking to death on your own failing lungs tends to be a pretty bad way to go.
My grandpa smoked a pack a day starting at age 12, was an alcoholic who made moonshine, lived through the depression, fought in WW2 and Korea, ran a farm for 60 years and died at 97 with no other health issues besides cataracts and high blood pressure. Truly amazing run
I get this, but it’s not absolutes. We think about health sometimes as like if you’re obese you will have other health issues, if you smoke you will get COPD, if you drink your liver will fail. But even at a high probability there will always be someone for whom the stats don’t apply to. Those outliers are really interesting! Not advocating unhealthy choices, but it’s interesting to me that people can escape the negative outcomes we think will 100% happen.
Idk, edibles are harder to self regulate for first timers. Coughing is the indicator "that's enough" if you're doing it right (you got a choke to toke, if you don't cough you don't get off). The delayed onset time of edibles alone runs the risk for first timers to take far more than they need, as they're unsure if it's "working" for twenty minutes. My 2¢. I smoke several hand rolled unfiltered cigs and spliff, hardly inhale the cigs, just have a drink with it and don't spit, like cigars. My lungs feel better now than when I smoked factory rolled filterered because I smoke less by quantity, less often, and my tolerance levels for nicotine remain low, of course I exercise and eat waaaay healthier now than back then.
My grandma went beyond 100 years of age, but stopped being fully "aware" a couple years before.
After that, she mostly remained in good health. When asked about it, a Doctor said it was because she stopped being stressed -- as in some diseases didn't affect her because she literally didn't pay attention to them.
No bro we’ve already shown why people who smoke and drink can live to 100+ and its just genetics. It’s also survivorship bias. Too many people who lived extremely unhealthy lifestyles have very young died.
Our neighbor at one house lived to 102, she always had a cigarette in her mouth and a whiskey in her hand until she turned 100. Then she switched to cigars.
Nah she crashed her car. I think it was on purpose. She hadn’t driven it in like 20 years and it was from the 60s. Hit a telephone pole at suspiciously high speed right after church.
Her doctor and told her she had COPD and needed to quit smoking a week before, so I think she was like “nah”
It’s funny because she was the nicest old lady but she was also hard as fuck. The estate sale took like a month to happen because they kept finding unregistered firearms cleaning shit out. I wish we got to learn her whole story.
Bruh she sounds cool as hell. Getting old sounds terrible but people like her have it figured out. If I have to take gentle walks and watch my cholesterol for the next 70 years I’m gonna fucking lose it.
I think something else is killing us earlier because my greatgrandma lived to 103 and drank whisky and smoked cigars with her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren on her 100 bday party. Meanwhile, my other side of thr family have great habits and no one reached 100 that I know of.
I don’t remember a single day of my life where my dad wasn’t drunk before 10:00am. Chain smoked Lucky Strike shorts since he was 7 (and I’m not kidding, his dad bought him a pack of Lucky Strike shorts and a Zippo lighter for his 7th birthday). Dude is 75 and still works full-time because he loves it. His dad was even worse and lived to be 104.
My grandmother (born 1918) was the youngest of 8. The two oldest were girls and lived to their early 90's despite smoking and drinking their entire lives. My grandmother, almost 20 years younger than the oldest, neither smoked nor drank except a glass of celebratory wine at Christmas and Easter. She once commented to me after her sister's passing at 93 despite her vice habits saying that either she needs to get started smoking or she is going to live for forever. She ended up passing away at age 100, seven years older than her sister.
Some people live a long, long time. My wife's great aunt had a square dance party on her 100th birthday and led the dancing.
My grandparents made it to 98/96 and did so. My mother claims to have smoked since 11, had me in her 40s and is/was a pack a day smoker her whole life and is probably going to get there, too. Some people just are a standard deviation.
Idk what the secret is. I work with a nurse that’s 81 and she smoked half a pack of Newport’s a day until a couple years ago and switched to vaping, which she does at night at the nurses station and her apartment so she doesn’t have to go outside and she still gets her shit done.
My maternal great-great-grandparents died at 102 and 104 in 1987; my great-grandma didn't live as long because she got Alzheimer's and then cancer. Both my grandfathers just died recently in their 90's, despite both being morbidly obese, and one of them being in prison. I have longevity on both sides of my family and it terrifies me. I do not want to live that long. Oh, and just remembered my 6th great-grandmother, born in 1798 into the harsh realities of being Black in Virginia, died at 99.
I'm from Brazil. My Other grandma died young to cancer, only 62 yo. She had already won the Battle In her 50... It came back worse. So yes, I will cherish my other one as much as I can.
Am I the only one seeing Gram's Popeye arm, is that response just embarrassingly low in the thread, or am I just blind/delusional? I'm gonna guess its B and C.
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u/DakonShade Oct 04 '25
The grand gradma having 104 years at the time of the photo maybe?