huh?
“Japanese smoke twice as much as Americans, but live twice as long.”
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So apparently individual behaviour (smoking, drinking, drugs, etc.) have little to do with living long at all. America is #30 (or #45 depending on which chart thingy you look at) on the list of life expectancy. Japan’s #1. How Japanese people can manage to live the longest, despite the constant danger of suffocating from the amount of people crammed together, is a wonder. The secret is that Japan’s people have better mental health than the U.S.’s. They’re just more socially cohesive than the U.S. For example, just take a look at the two countries’ tourism methods. Have you ever seen a Japanese tourist legging it out on his own? No, you have not. U.S.A.ians like to tough it out independently.
nutshell: Japan is emotionally stable so the people can smoke/drink all they want without consequence.
Group of happy Japanese tourists free of cardiovascular disease. Aww look at them with their little Asian hats and fanny packs.
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Lonely American tourist in Southern Morocco very probably going to die of depression and sorrow.1