Things you should do if you want to live to 100
Let's start with the glaringly obvious: don't smoke. Smoking, as we all know by now, has a strongly negative impact on overall health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking causes nearly one in five deaths per year in the United States. As the CDC notes, smoking-related illnesses like lung cancer, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and stroke kill more people each year than AIDS, car accidents, firearm-related deaths, alcoho