Smoking

[Master]

I tried mint cigarettes they were horrible.

[Ghost]

Centenarians may have a great deal of wisdom to share, but this apparently does not include advice on how to live to age 100.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people — age 95 and older — could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise.
The very old are, in fact, no more virtuous than the general population when it comes to shunning bad health habits, leaving researchers to conclude that their genes are mostly responsible for their remarkable longevity.
But before you fall off the wagon and start tossing down doughnuts for breakfast just because your Aunt Edna just turned 102, remember that genetics is a game of chance. What didn't kill Aunt Edna still could kill you prematurely, the researchers cautioned.
The chosen few
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112. They were enrolled in Einstein College's Longevity Genes Project, an ongoing study that seeks to understand why centenarians live as long as they do. About 1 in 4,400 Americans lives to age 100, according to 2010 census data.
A research team led by Nir Barzilai compared these old folks with a group of people representing the general public, captured in a snapshot of health habits collected in the 1970s. The people in this control group were born around the same time as the 95-and-above study group, but they have since died.
The living, old people in the study were remarkably ordinary in their lifestyles, Barzilai said. By and large, they weren't vegetarians, vitamin-pill-poppers or health freaks. Their profiles nearly matched that of the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, at age 107, smoked for over 90 years.




100-Year-Olds Just as Unhealthy as the Rest of Us - Yahoo! News

[generalbulldog]

Centenarians may have a great deal of wisdom to share, but this apparently does not include advice on how to live to age 100.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people — age 95 and older — could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise.
The very old are, in fact, no more virtuous than the general population when it comes to shunning bad health habits, leaving researchers to conclude that their genes are mostly responsible for their remarkable longevity.
But before you fall off the wagon and start tossing down doughnuts for breakfast just because your Aunt Edna just turned 102, remember that genetics is a game of chance. What didn't kill Aunt Edna still could kill you prematurely, the researchers cautioned.
The chosen few
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112. They were enrolled in Einstein College's Longevity Genes Project, an ongoing study that seeks to understand why centenarians live as long as they do. About 1 in 4,400 Americans lives to age 100, according to 2010 census data.
A research team led by Nir Barzilai compared these old folks with a group of people representing the general public, captured in a snapshot of health habits collected in the 1970s. The people in this control group were born around the same time as the 95-and-above study group, but they have since died.
The living, old people in the study were remarkably ordinary in their lifestyles, Barzilai said. By and large, they weren't vegetarians, vitamin-pill-poppers or health freaks. Their profiles nearly matched that of the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, at age 107, smoked for over 90 years.




100-Year-Olds Just as Unhealthy as the Rest of Us - Yahoo! News

Well if that 107 year old woman didn't smoke for over 90 years she may have lived to 140 and become the oldest living person ever.

*meh, rolls one up and lights cigarette*

[El Kabong]

You only live once, may as well have some fun.

[superheavyrhun]

You only live once, may as well have some fun.

Imagine saving all the money from 90 years of smoking. That is an absolute truckload of fun right there. Still, each to their own, I'm more down the suggested route of doughnuts for breakfast.

[El Kabong]

You only live once, may as well have some fun.

Imagine saving all the money from 90 years of smoking. That is an absolute truckload of fun right there. Still, each to their own, I'm more down the suggested route of doughnuts for breakfast.

If you live to 90 "fun" will be regular bowel movements....so though I don't smoke cigarettes I'd take them over having that money when I'm 90!

[El Kabong]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

[generalbulldog]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

I've always heard Cuban cigars were the best. BTW, aren't they illegal?

[El Kabong]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

I've always heard Cuban cigars were the best. BTW, aren't they illegal?

They have a mystique because they are banned in the US (due to communism).

You can get the same quality out of the rollers in Little Havana or the Dominican.

[Ghost]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

I've always heard Cuban cigars were the best. BTW, aren't they illegal?

Not here.

[Ghost]

Centenarians may have a great deal of wisdom to share, but this apparently does not include advice on how to live to age 100.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people — age 95 and older — could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise.
The very old are, in fact, no more virtuous than the general population when it comes to shunning bad health habits, leaving researchers to conclude that their genes are mostly responsible for their remarkable longevity.
But before you fall off the wagon and start tossing down doughnuts for breakfast just because your Aunt Edna just turned 102, remember that genetics is a game of chance. What didn't kill Aunt Edna still could kill you prematurely, the researchers cautioned.
The chosen few
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112. They were enrolled in Einstein College's Longevity Genes Project, an ongoing study that seeks to understand why centenarians live as long as they do. About 1 in 4,400 Americans lives to age 100, according to 2010 census data.
A research team led by Nir Barzilai compared these old folks with a group of people representing the general public, captured in a snapshot of health habits collected in the 1970s. The people in this control group were born around the same time as the 95-and-above study group, but they have since died.
The living, old people in the study were remarkably ordinary in their lifestyles, Barzilai said. By and large, they weren't vegetarians, vitamin-pill-poppers or health freaks. Their profiles nearly matched that of the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, at age 107, smoked for over 90 years.




100-Year-Olds Just as Unhealthy as the Rest of Us - Yahoo! News

Well if that 107 year old woman didn't smoke for over 90 years she may have lived to 140 and become the oldest living person ever.

*meh, rolls one up and lights cigarette*

She ain't dead yet.

[Nameless]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

I've always heard Cuban cigars were the best. BTW, aren't they illegal?

They have a mystique because they are banned in the US (due to communism).

You can get the same quality out of the rollers in Little Havana or the Dominican.

Cuban are 100% legal in Canada, now I know what to bring the day I'll go visit your part of the world.

[El Kabong]

Just had a nice Cuban cigar...mmm very nice

I've always heard Cuban cigars were the best. BTW, aren't they illegal?

They have a mystique because they are banned in the US (due to communism).

You can get the same quality out of the rollers in Little Havana or the Dominican.

Cuban are 100% legal in Canada, now I know what to bring the day I'll go visit your part of the world.

Well as soon as Cuba gets its mind right I would LOVE to visit, but til then I guess I'll have to look forward to traveling to other places

[Andre]

I tried mint cigarettes they were horrible.

You ever tried Menglore Ganesh Bedes? I swear they must be made from collected used street butts wrapped with cloves and re rolled into a tobacco leaf.

[Master]

I tried mint cigarettes they were horrible.

You ever tried Menglore Ganesh Bedes? I swear they must be made from collected used street butts wrapped with cloves and re rolled into a tobacco leaf.

No but hate the smell of spliff too.