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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember1" data-source="post: 754957" data-attributes="member: 23706"><p>There are no accurate records from earlier times. We don't know what the addiction rate was. There are better ways of tracking percentages now. I suspect alcoholism was way higher then and alcohol definitely kills.</p><p></p><p>Our life expectancy today is decades higher than it used to be. I don't like to focus on only the bad side of life. Even drugs haven't stopped us from living longer healthier lives. Back in the 1800s and early 1900s there was polio, measles, smallpox, deadly diseases. Plagues.No antibiotics. No way to cure cancer. People smoking with no clue of the diseases it caused. Smoking was the norm as late as the 50s. Could that kill you? Absolutely. I think we tend to romanticize old times in an unrealistic way. It wasn't all that great in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>In the end, my own daughter included, it is about our long term choices in this lifetime. </p><p></p><p>Blessings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember1, post: 754957, member: 23706"] There are no accurate records from earlier times. We don't know what the addiction rate was. There are better ways of tracking percentages now. I suspect alcoholism was way higher then and alcohol definitely kills. Our life expectancy today is decades higher than it used to be. I don't like to focus on only the bad side of life. Even drugs haven't stopped us from living longer healthier lives. Back in the 1800s and early 1900s there was polio, measles, smallpox, deadly diseases. Plagues.No antibiotics. No way to cure cancer. People smoking with no clue of the diseases it caused. Smoking was the norm as late as the 50s. Could that kill you? Absolutely. I think we tend to romanticize old times in an unrealistic way. It wasn't all that great in my opinion. In the end, my own daughter included, it is about our long term choices in this lifetime. Blessings. [/QUOTE]
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