> better food and diet We have far more processed garbage, more pesticides, more chemicals in general. I don't think it's so cut and dry in the nutrition depa

> better food and diet We have far more processed garbage, more pesticides, more chemicals in general. I don't think it's so cut and dry in the nutrition department. I suspect it was mostly just people smoked a lot. I remember the 80s, I remember everywhere public except hospitals allowing smoking indoors still. It was a huge portion of the population that smoked, at least back in IL where I grew up. And it was often discussed about, how unhealthy certain relatives/friends were and how fast they were declining visibly for their age. There was usually an element of addiction like smoking over a pack a day implicated. Also back when I was a kid, everyone was putting on sun-tan lotion in the summer. We didn't even have sunscreen in our home. What we had instead was Solarcaine to numb the pain of sunburn. My dad worked as a concrete construction worker and by the time he retired his skin was so utterly wrecked. I don't think he ever put on sunscreen once in his life, too macho for that.