# Will a hard partying drugs & alcohol lifestyle when young impact health in later years? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-a-hard-partying-drugs-alcohol-lifestyle-when-young-impact-health-in-later-years/725614 "2015-07-19T15:05:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-a-hard-partying-drugs-alcohol-lifestyle-when-young-impact-health-in-later-years/725614/41 "2016-01-13T01:02:50Z")
Oops. Since I was last in that thread it did come up. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-a-hard-partying-drugs-alcohol-lifestyle-when-young-impact-health-in-later-years/725614/42 "2016-01-13T01:09:34Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Really? At age 69? > > And if we simply must condemn a dead guy for his lifestyle, can’t we at least wait until the body is cold? Believe me, I’m not condemning anyone and did not mean to make it sound that way. I had my own wasted youth and know how it is. But 69 is not that old really, and you have to wonder how much the “rock-star lifestyle” contributed. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-a-hard-partying-drugs-alcohol-lifestyle-when-young-impact-health-in-later-years/725614/43 "2016-01-13T05:55:07Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Yes. Really. Exactly. At age 69. > > Hey the thread was not reanimated to trash on Bowie, and discussing how his lifestyle likely contributed to his early death was not done in the thread mourning his loss. But this thread’s op, old as it may be, was inspired by interviews with older (50s to maybe 70s) musicians who had partied hard earlier and wondered about the lasting impacts of such. > > Pointing out Bowie as a likely illustration of lasting impacts is not condemning his lifestyle. It is appropriate to the discussion of the thread. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Believe me, I’m not condemning anyone and did not mean to make it sound that way. I had my own wasted youth and know how it is. But 69 is not that old really, and you have to wonder how much the “rock-star lifestyle” contributed. I don’t know. Jerry Garcia died at age 53. If you partied hard and then died at 69, maybe you did it right. The standard life expectancy isn’t much more than that… ok, 77 years in the US. How many standard deviations is Bowie off? How many is Garcia? ETA: And he has a brand new album out. He kept doing it for all his years. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-a-hard-partying-drugs-alcohol-lifestyle-when-young-impact-health-in-later-years/725614/44 "2016-01-13T06:12:36Z")
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