sb wrote:
Not to disparage your friend, but it's actually a great misunderstanding and misuse of statistics. While 300 years ago the AVERAGE life span may have been 45 years - that was because so many infants and children died of infectious diseases. If you lived to adulthood, your chances of living to a ripe old age were only a little less than today - I mean, look at George Washington, Ben Franklin, etc.
My granfather was born in 1865 died in 1965. whould have been 101 if he had lived two more months. He smoked cigars till a year before he died. Ill be 84 soon and never felt better in my life. Get my kicks poking a pointy stick in the libs eye. Keeps me young. Realy gets me going when I see how bent out of shape they get when we rant on their troll in the whitehouse.