[userbinator]

Everyone has heard of someone who smoked and drank and lived to a hundred

It's interesting that the oldest known human to have lived (122!) smoked too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

Calment continued smoking in her elderly years until she was 117

But I'd say she is definitely an extreme genetic outlier, and would not bet that she could've lived longer had she not smoked.

(Disclaimer: non-smoker and no interest in doing so either, for other reasons.)

[swiftcoder]

Worth noting that there is some controversy about whether Jeanne Calment was actually 122, or it was a case of her daughter Yvonne assuming her identity to commit pension fraud...

This is apparently endemic in the so-called "blue zones" where folks routinely live well past 100 on paper, but its thought that many folks are exploiting poor record keeping in the past to keep drawing their pension checks

[userbinator]

If it was her daughter, she still lived to 99, which is above average and even more so for a regular smoker.

[nprateem]

> Disclaimer: non-smoker and no interest in doing so either, for other reasons

A better word would be "irrelevant"