I've smoked much longer than I care to mention. My sister - never. She had a heart attack and subsequent problems - my family was shocked because all of them thought it should have been me (I know, great, huh?).
My grandfather rolled his own and lived to in his eighties. His children - all have lived until at least their eighties - all have had cancer in one form or another and NONE smoked or drank.
It wasn't the big C that got him. It was a doctor and a problem that started off with an infected toenail, graduated to rampant infection - amputation - several years of debility and then death in a hospital. I've always said, let a doctor, especially an oncologist, get your ass in a hospital for any length of time and he will kill you.
My husband and I are both healthy. My mother smoked a lot and lived to 91. His mother died at about 75 from stomach cancer, she never smoked or drank. Both our fathers died in their 60s and they were both smokers and drinkers. Sometimes I think drinking is more of a culprit.
I knew quite a few young men and women who died from testicular cancer and breast cancer. I tend to blame their cancers on marijuana.
I have a theory though that vaccinations enabled the weak to live longer than they should have and now they’re leaving us because their weaknesses caught up to them.