Amen to that 
I presume the OP realises that the majority of Muslims pray several times a day, i.e. a lot more frequently than most Christians. Or does that not count, because they’re doing it wrong?
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I’m not sure how much more drug use there is among whites than blacks and latinos, but whites definitley attend church less often
I can’t cite (which I hate), so take this as probably apocryphal. When I was in college, a lecture in a religious studies class I took mentioned a study that showed that in the US:
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religious folks lived longer than non-religious ones, by a statistically significant but small margin
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That margin was almost entirely explained by Muslims and Mormans, both groups with generally healthy lifestyle requirements.
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Remove the Muslims and Mormans, and religious folks live slightly less long than non-religious ones, by an even smaller margin (don’t remember significance).
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That margin is explained entirely by Christian Scientists and various cult religions that don’t believe in using modern medicine at all, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, who won’t accept blood transfusions.
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Take those out, correct for mostly economic factors, and the effects all disappear.
If anyone can actually find a cite for this, or even a hint as to whether it’s real or crackpot, I’d love to have it.
But, if you’re a Christian and you die, you go to Heaven (or at least you believe you do). As Heaven is a glorious place infinitely better than life on Earth, why would you want to prolong that trip?
Lifestyle choices and economic stability seem to be the biggest indicators in long life.
Not taking into account poverty and lack of social programs, if dangerous behavior was actually tied to how religious people were, this could be possible, but there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between “good” lifestyle choices and Christianity.
On a personal level, I think many of us has met a church going religious person (who may even try witnessing to you) who’s choices in life not match their faith, as if they almost consider their faith to be a “Get out of Jail/Hell free card”.
I think if unbiased studies were done, it would be found there is no difference between the lifespans of anyone regardless of faith or lack thereof.
Were the studies limited to christians though? Perhaps it would be that anybody attending church lives longer (muslims, jews - I personally am an atheist that goes every Sunday to a Unitarian Church) - not just christians.