Why do some people smoke and drink but still live long? People who hold this idea make a mistake of generalizing, that is, they only see one case among 100 people and think that the other 99 people are the same. In fact, perhaps only this person can live long, and the other 99 people can't enjoy life because of smoking and drinking.
This misunderstanding, also known as "survivor bias", refers to the infinite enlargement of the case to the universal normal, thinking that you will also belong to this exception, thus playing a comforting role.
People who smoke and drink but still live a long life may have these four advantages:
1, genetic gene
There are many factors that affect life expectancy, not just smoking and drinking. People who can live a long life by smoking and drinking may have an innate advantage, which you may never be able to match. This is heredity.
According to research, longevity is closely related to genes. It is found in many long-lived elderly people that their parents tend to live longer, and genes determine the 70% probability of longevity. So if your parents, especially your mother, are long-lived old people, congratulations, even if you smoke and drink, you may live longer.
This powerful genetic power is beyond our reach. When you see people who can live longer by smoking and drinking, you can't guarantee that you have the same innate advantages and can live as long as them. Therefore, you can't bet your health on the unknowable. It's better to get rid of this bad habit as soon as possible.
Smoking and drinking are moderate.
In addition to the power of genes, it is of course necessary to work hard the day after tomorrow to live longer.
People who smoke and drink long are not those who smoke and drink excessively. They will grasp a degree about this, only smoke one or two cigarettes a day, and only drink two or two cups when drinking, which will not affect their mood. In a happy mood, the harm of smoking and drinking will be reduced as much as possible, which is naturally beneficial to health and longevity.
Although they smoke and drink, they also have other good living and eating habits.
In addition, they have good living habits, pay attention to diet conditioning, and have a light diet. They don't like greasy foods such as frying and barbecue, work and rest regularly, get up and sleep on time, and usually insist on moderate exercise.
It is precisely because of these good living habits that they offset the disadvantages brought by smoking and drinking to the greatest extent, which is also a reason why they can live longer.
Step 4 have a good attitude
These long-lived old people also have one thing in common, that is, good mentality. Emotion has a great influence on health. Excessive emotional fluctuation will lead to disorder of qi in the body, imbalance of yin and yang, and many diseases.
Anger, in particular, undoubtedly triggered a major earthquake in the body and caused damage to internal organs. Therefore, if you want to live a long life, you need to do things with a normal heart. Don't hold back on things, look down on things outside, be angry for less than three minutes, laugh more and worry less, which is conducive to longevity.
To sum up, there are many factors that affect health, smoking and drinking is only one of them, and it is not an absolute factor. However, we say that smoking and drinking may not necessarily affect life expectancy, but the impact on health is beyond doubt. If health is affected, it may also shorten the average life expectancy by 10 to 20 years.
Therefore, we must not be lucky that we will be a special case. Only by developing good living habits can we help to live longer.