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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013

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Introduction
Graziella Caselli and Marc Luy: Determinants of unusual and differential longevity

Refereed Articles
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups

Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan Karen Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine: Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension

Jon Anson: Surviving to be the oldest old—destiny or chance?

Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes: The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world

Luis Rosero-Bixby, William H. Dow and David H. Rehkopf: The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males

Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt D. Scholz: Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany

Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth M. Lawrence: Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States

Maria Winkler-Dworak and Heiner Kaden: The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins: Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers

Ethan J. Sharygin and Michel Guillot: Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan

Graziella Caselli, Rosa Maria Lipsi, Enrica Lapucci and James W. Vaupel: Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity

Valérie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau: Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival

Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova: Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings

Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain: Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010

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Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers

    Morgan E. Levine, Eileen M. Crimmins

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013, pp. 205-218, 2024/12/12

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s205

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s205


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Abstract

It is well established that cigarette use contributes to an extraordinary increase in the risk of mortality. Nevertheless, a small proportion of long-term chronic smokers manage to reach extreme old age, potentially suggesting that this sub-population may have distinct biological protection or repair mechanisms that allow it to better cope with the hazards of smoking. Using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), on 5,423 adults aged 50 and over, we examined how among smokers and never-smokers mortality differs over the age range and whether smoking-related differences in markers of physiological functioning converge with increasing age. Our findings suggest that differences in mortality risk between current smokers and those who have never smoked are significantly less pronounced at older ages, and that smoking did not significantly contribute to subsequent mortality risk for individuals who had survived to at least age 80. Furthermore, among those who were less than 80 years of age, smokers had significantly elevated levels of inflammation in comparison to never-smokers, there were no such differences found between smokers and never-smokers at age eighty and above. Finally, we found a crossover effect for HDL cholesterol—with smokers showing worse levels at younger ages than never-smokers and better levels, although not significant, at older ages. Our study presents evidence that long-lived smokers may represent a distinct and biologically advantaged group, who are less susceptible to the negative side effects of smoking and perhaps other environmental insults.

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