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JacobAldridge on March 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

And that she quit smoking at 120! A beautiful case study for those who see causation in correlation.

sp332 on March 5, 2011 [–]

Obviously, smoking causes death!

/troll

Evgeny on March 5, 2011 | [–]

But in this particular case it looks like stopping smoking causes death. Smoked to 120, stopped, died at 122.5.

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