Party lifestyle takes its toll on health ‘from age 36’ – The Times
2025-04-24T23:01:00Z
Researchers in Finland found relatively few consequences to heavy drinking and smoking in your twenties — but the damage mounts quickly afterwards
When people are young and feel invincible, they seem to get away with night after night of chain smoking and binge drinking.
But new research shows such a party lifestyle will take its toll on your health by the age of 36, and not just because hangovers get worse as you get older.
Researchers in Finland tracked 371 people throughout their lives, investigating how vices including smoking, binge drinking and not exercising affected health.
Kate Moss indulges in what the scientists termed “risky behaviour” JAMES DEVANEY/GETTY IMAGES
There were relatively few consequences to heavy drinking and smoking in your twenties, but from then on there is truth to the old adage “live fast, die young”.
By the time people reached their thirties, the unhealthy habits were found to result in ill health, including higher rates of depression, cancer,
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