Can't Heavy Drinking Shorten One's Life ?

[JI7]

There are exceptions for sure . Scalia smoked a lot and ate a lot of unhealthy food and lived to be 80 .

[wasupaloopa]

1. I was an alcoholic for the first half of my life.

I quit drinking in 1983. I am in good health today. Quit smoking and became a vegetarian in the middle 90’s.

Everybody is different I think.

[JI7]

3. but what if one doesn't quit and continue with the unhealthy lifestyle ?

i have a feeling in Kavanaugh's case he still drinks a lot.

[wasupaloopa]

6. He could get liver damage and he is killing brain cells.

He might get a big red nose.

[dalton99a]

2. Hopefully the new justice will increase his daily ethanol allowance by 5X

[BigmanPigman]

4. A lot depends on your genes.

Christopher Reece died and his wife and caregiver died shortly later...due to lung cancer. She never smoked. Others smoke and drink, don't exercise, eat crap and fat and live to be 100. It's a crap shoot.

[JI7]

5. Dana Reeve didn't smoke herself but she performed in places where many people smoked

and which she inhaled regularly .

but yes, there are people who could easily live for years with bad habits .

[raccoon]

20. I believe that stress of Chris's injury shorten her life. NT

[ecstatic]

7. I don't know if drinking can, but karma definitely can. nt

[democratisphere]

11. Karma can be very bad for your health; may even lead to death.

I try to avoid it at all costs!

[democratisphere]

8. Beer kills brain cells.

[Hekate]

9. One of my brothers has been drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney since high school...

And he's 70 y.o. Granted, he doesn't have all his brain cells any more, but he is very much alive.

[democratisphere]

12. A pulse is all that is required to maintain a seat in Congress.

I believe the SCOTUS additionally requires at least some cognitive activity.

[Hekate]

13. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't count on unhealthy habits to bring him down. Sadly. nt

[democratisphere]

14. I am still hoping that Kavanaugh will bring himself down sooner.

[Hekate]

15. Fingers crossed for that

[LisaL]

10. Do you seriously have to ask?

[SoCalDem]

16. one can hope n/t

[musicblind]

17. I wish death on no one, not even someone like Brett Kavanaugh.

But to answer your question, a shortened life is a possibility, not a promise.

It increases your chance, but it doesn't guarantee anything.

I had a grandfather who smoke and drank nearly his whole life and died in his 80's. I had an uncle who drank his whole life and died in a pool of his own urine and vomit in his 40's.

There are so many factors at play. Given his age, I imagine Kavanaugh's liver would be his biggest issue going forward. Being a supreme court justice, he would get the top care in the country and likely become shortlisted for a liver transplant.

I think it is far better to wish him impeachment and removal than it is to wish him death.

[LuvNewcastle]

18. Yep, he'll get the best medical care.

He's probably had excellent care his whole life thus far. Unless he has some sort of genetic sabotage in his makeup, he'll likely live a long time. Dems need to win and impeach the motherfucker after they get the asshole who nominated him.

[raccoon]

19. It definitely can. Nt

[DFW]

21. Don't count on alcohol to save the country from Kavanawful

He's 53, and if he has a life expectancy of 80, and manages to shorten it to 67, that's still fourteen years of awful rulings from him, and you KNOW that he will spend his time at SCOTUS getting revenge on "Libbruls" and non-Catholics. He will not meet a corporation or a death sentence or an environmentally destructive law he didn't like.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Indeed it can

Killed a friend at age 49.

[csziggy]

23. My Dad was a functioning alcholic and lived to 90

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So I wouldn't count on drinking killing Kavanaugh early.