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 Smoking kills, right??
So what's killing Americans if not the smoking?

Greece - Smokers: 39.1%, Life expectancy: 82.2 years
France - Smokers: 34.6%, Life expectancy: 83.5 years
Andorra - Smokers: 33.8%, Life expectancy: 83.9 years
Cyprus - Smokers: 36.7%, Life expectancy: 82.2 years
Spain - Smokers: 28.4%, Life expectancy: 84.2 years
Italy - Smokers: 22.4%, Life expectancy: 84.4 years
United States - Smokers: 24.3%, Life expectancy: 77.3 years 
 yes, modern fiat food is poison

same goes for cigarettes  
 SAD 
 Stress 
 just curious where this info comes from - link? 
 https://m.primal.net/LWid.jpg 
 like your - Max DeMarco - name/nym?    & the gif   t-y 
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 None of us are getting out of here alive regardless of what you do or don't do.   So, I'd say live it and don't live it to tell about it.

Health is the real wealth. 
 The us is one of the contry spending the most on its healthcare system, yet, its life expectancy is one of the lowest 
 But what is the life expectancy of those who smoke in those countries? Overall life expectancy (i.e. combining smokers and non-smokers) has too many confounders. 
 How big tobacco got into you food.

"By 1990, the two largest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. The book 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which is the preeminent book on the M&A deals of the 1980s, was about R.J. Reynolds buying Nabisco. And then you had Philip Morris buying Kraft, US Foods, some of the largest transactions in U.S. history."

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/10/13/big-tobacco-food-system.aspx?ui=f2c756223cee62860dc9c26dd004be8cf1f7ca32f42ad73e2622f56c34833c3a&sd=20240924&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20241013_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1643382&rid=140026912 
 How dare you question the sacred scapegoat for everything? 🤣  
 Maybe they are listening to you and following an all meat diet? 
 My guess is this shows the power of diet and exercise. If you removed all processed food consumption, exercised a lot more, and also started smoking one pack of cigarettes per day - I would guess your life expectancy would actually go up slightly. 🤷 
 No question, it's the food.   
 I do not believe 24.3% of Americans smoke cigarettes in 2024. 
 Industrialized food.