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Married people live 7 years longer on average, whereas the same cannot be the same for heroin users. So the two are probably not interchangeable!


Married people. People who stay married. What happens when you include the third of marriages that end in divorce?


Correlation vs causation. Also, those statistics are from a different time. Let's compare divorced vs never-married to get a fairer picture.


That doesn't sound appealing. Taking a huge risk for something that can potentially ruin my finances for an extended period of time in exchange for maybe 7 more years of living.

No thanks. That is not a good deal.


So sounds like the futuristic studies on human longevity could be directed to research on keeping people married longer.


Its probably not the heroin but the lifestyle attached to an expensive illegal drug




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