On Thursday a friend of mine told me a, probably apocryphal, tale about AIDS becoming a problem with elderly heterosexuals - due to Viagra.
Hand out the blue pills.
Not really. It depends on the extent to which the infant mortality rate is factored in when calculating the “average” age of an ancient population.
If you wandered around ancient Athens you’d find plenty of greybeards around (except after they had a plague, of course. very hard on the under fives and over sixties).
I’ll be 67 on my next birthday so I guess I am one of the elderly the OP wants to dispose of. I think I’ll hang around as long as I can, so I can spend more time with my Darling Marcie. However, if the OP is truly concerned about the increasing elderly population, I encourage him to freely indulge in the life threatening habits mentioned, as well as several others of his own choosing. Russian Roulette, for instance.
You’d need an awfully large band. No waaait, I saw 10,000 Maniacs on teevy one time, and no way were there 10,000 of them.
Also, I misread unhealthy lifestyles as unhealthy hairstyles, and thought of that beehive do that grew poison spiders.
Excuse my ignorance of economics but how exactly do you plan to replenish the treasury with the profit from free tobacco and alcohol?