Living Too Long
The Secrets of ‘Cognitive Super-Agers’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/well/mind/aging-memory-centenarians.html
Four grandparents lived into their 90s, one nearly 100. She claimed it was due to dipping snuff, never spitting. The younger ones smoked cigarettes whenever awake, first thing in the morning, last thing at night.
Rolled their own, Buglers tobacco, by hand or by a neat gadget we kids found to be a doozie to watch.
All the olders cursed a blue streak. I am telling you nobody in the army or navy came close to the vulgarities spouted by the snuffer and the smokers, usually aimed at the government, especially Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The names FDR was called we youngsters made into a song, a dance, a banshee and dervish that churned the dust into noisy whirlwinds.
Those antics aroused our grandparents to porch stamping hoedowns, running dogs and cats into the desert, but their filthy language never let up.
The language was Tex-Mex-Germano-Irish with a smidgen of something similar to English gutter talk against the King or Queen of the [redacted] Realm.
This is close to scientific proof that commodious tobacco and offensive oration and complaining about government are the sine qua non of living far too long.