Preachers & Holy Rollers would never get you into the tent if they told you the sermon beforehand. 
Of course it’s possible to live a long time with an unhealthy lifestyle: Just look at George Burns.
But the odds are heavily against you. You’ll probably have not just fewer years, but also fewer quality years. The ways in which alcohol and tobacco kill you are not fun.
It depends on your genes. There are pockets of people on this planet who survive tobacco because of their genetic background. A very small percentage. VERY small. Think George Burns. What you’re doing to your body is immensely harmful. It’s not hard to look around for examples of such behavior. Look up almost anyone in Hollywood from the 40’s and 50’s who drank and smoked. It took it’s toll.
There are a lot of people in your position. A typical lifestyle at your age would be a person with high school age children and a mate with a second income. People who drink heavily often join a club like the Eagles for cheaper drinks. Beer is usually cheap as are shot drinks such as Fireballs or Drambuie. This becomes a village of the damned with people who reinforce bad habits. Throw in club gambling and paychecks burn to the ground.
It doesn’t just affect the drinker. It affects everyone around them. School events are missed. Children and spouse are embarrassed in front of their friends who fade away because of it. Relationships are ruined. It’s hard to see this when the person is drunk.
I’m in my 50’s heading to 60 and I’ve seen quite a few people die in their 40’s from cancer or other serious diseases. I had a former girl friend die in her mid 40’s from heavy smoking. Riding an addiction to an early grave is easy to do. It is a chemical dependency that is hard to break unless the person has a reason to break it. If you have a reason to break it then you have a new hobby that saves you money. If you don’t have a reason then there isn’t much stopping you.
In case you’re interested in giving up smoking for your health, here’s an idea.
You smoke about 4 packs of cigarettes a day. I don’t know what US State you’re in (and the tax on cigarettes varies by State), but let’s say the typical cost of a pack is $7.50.
So that’s $30 a day going up in smoke.
In a year, you spend nearly $11,000 dollars on smoking.
I can think of a lot of better things to do with $11,000 a year (tax-free!)
Think how much hookers and blow you could get for 11 thousand dollars!
PING: Lamar Odom
I am not a doctor, but as I understand it, health doesn’t necessarily decline in a steady slope - as in, the outward effects. You can smoke for decades and suffer few noticeable ill effects, but then suddenly one year - BAM - cancer.
No, just empirical observation of co-workers, friends and family. For smokers and heavy drinkers it seems a cluster of serious health issues tends to crop up into their mid to late 40’s and into their 50’'s. By the time smokers and heavy drinkers are in their 50s they are usually struggling with some very serious chronic health issues to a much greater degree than people who do not smoke and drink heavily.
Or - BAM - heart attack.
If you’re lucky. Cancer isn’t so much of a “BAM” as a “Hey, guess what, your next few months are gonna SUCK”. That’s what it was like for my mother - who was generally quite healthy until she wasn’t.
Yeah, massive heart attack and dropping dead in line at the 7-11 waiting to buy your smokes, brewksis and lottery tickets is probably the best case scenario. Lots better than lung cancer.
How much does cancer suck? Ehh, it depends. Mostly it depends on how long you know you have cancer before it kills you.
My dad didn’t know he had cancer, even when he died. He went in for surgery to treat what they thought was fluid on his heart, but it was cancer surrounding his heart. They went to take a biopsy, and the tumor tore, tearing his aorta. He never woke up. He did have noticeable health issues before then (they thought he had fluid on his heart, after all), but that’s a fairly clean end for cancer to hand you.
My mom found out she had lung cancer, survived chemo without much in the way of side effects, and was deemed cancer free for about three months. After that time it, spread to her brain and she was gone in weeks. So, the last few months of her life were painful, but many have it worse.
My aunt had cancer, went through treatment, and the cancer didn’t respond. She lingered for about a year after they gave up, and the pain meds pretty much made her an invalid. That was probably worse.
But, my relative that was the closest to the OP was my grandfather. I saw him drunk very few times, but I never remember seeing him without a drink. When I got up for school and he was visiting, he was already at the breakfast table with a cigar, whiskey and 7up. Innumerable cans of Coors and two packs of Raleighs were his regimen until the evening, then it was back to whiskey and 7up with cigars. He died of heart disease at 64.
I smoke and drink, but nothing quite like these relatives or the OP. From watching the last years of their lives, I have decided to cease smoking, it’s just a matter of what attempt I make is actually going to take.
Hmm, 20 beers in 12 hours…20/12=1.7 beers/hour. I doubt you’re drunk, unless those are strong or large beers. If you’re gonna drink like that, why just exercise your liver? Drink 6 in an hour and then go sleep it off for 8. It’ll probably cut down on your available smoking time.
No, wait, scratch that. That’s what I’d do instead, but it’s probably terrible advice. Look at the people I’m descended from! They’re a bunch of cancer and heart disease ridden alcoholics! It’s a terrible perspective to view this problem from.
OP: You can’t pump toxins into your body endlessly and not expect *something *bad to happen. Well, not unless you have the mightiest liver known to man.
You’re slacking on the beer intake, bro. You need to work on that. Not even 1 ever half-hour average. Pretty weak.
Are you happy?
I suspect the answer is no. If the answer is no, there are ways to stop doing what you are doing. I, and others on this board, can offer suggestions on how to work on this problem if you like.
If you are content to keep on doing what you are doing, then I wouldn’t expect you to live a long happy life.
Slee