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To: 1rudeboy
Just in terms of background, does anyone have any data on how many of these “World’s Oldest Person”-types actually die?

Heart stops.

24 posted on 12/16/2007 8:59:51 AM PST by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: submarinerswife
Heart stops.

Wrong.
Current conventional common wisdom: smoking.

I made a curious discovery a number of years ago, perhaps 10 or so years past: in a discussion similar to this one there was a list of the modern 10 longest-lived persons, and their documented age.

All of them smoked most of their lives, with three of them smoking past age 100.

Ironically it occured during the "smoking" hysteria and the monumental penalty extracted from smokers in the U.S. via the tobacco companies.

40 posted on 12/16/2007 10:12:15 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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