Want to live to 100? Follow these 18 simple rules

Follow these 18 simple rules and you won’t just live longer—you’ll make those (many, many) years count.

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1. Stop smoking

Four years after doing so, your chance of having a heart attack falls to that of someone who has never smoked.

After ten years, your lung cancer risk drops to nearly that of a nonsmoker.

Concerned? See your doctor as techniques for earlier detection and new treatments for lung cancer exist.

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This is the real story of a prisoner at the infamous Alcatraz prison, incarcerated at the same time as Al Capone.

Find out which everyday terms started out by mistake.

We’ve got the answers that debunk (or defend) common old wives’ tales.

You’ll have to read them to believe them (or not).

We’ve compiled 70 words and phrases we’ve all used wrong at some point.

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