From what I've heard it's largely from less smoking and more sunscreen
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Also waaaaaaaay less drinking
My brother is an early 70's born gen x, I'm a late 80's born millennial. From what I've seen drinking and smoking being publicly accessible and socially acceptable made them way more prevelantly indulged in.
Guy on left can afford nice shirt.
Lots of very important things, but mostly the smoking.
But it isn't? It's crazy how Lemmy just overconfidently states this multiple times even it's actually sun exposure that aged people so much back then .
Also having kids.
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true. i saw some people who were 80 and looked like 250. like walking corpses. incredible. probably waaay too many sunburns, etc.
yes the thing that changed was lead posioning from gas and chain smoking cigs starting at 12
Also pesticides were even more unregulated than they are now. Remember how they just sprayed DDT everywhere in the 40's till the 70's. Even on directly on people. Shit had multigenerational consequences, even grandchildren of people who had a high exposure to that stuff are being affected.
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Yes, but the hair loss is real.
ever since i found out about this a few years ago i'm telling everyone i meet: there's fantastic medication against hair loss, and it even causes side effects! such as mild boob growth
note that only some meds to that, while others do not.
In rare cases it also causes permanent erectile dysfunction, so probably isn't the best thing to be recommending everyone takes.
Recently watched The Seven Year Itch (1955) and the man claims to be 37. He looks like a young 50. Cigarettes.
It isn't cigarettes. It's being outside in the sun a lot more that really ages. Cigarettes are can but don't age people nearly as much as UV does.
Just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Nicholson was 38 during filming. I thought he looked 50 too.
Nah he looks 38 lol
No, he definitely looks well into 45+
I’m 38. He does not look 38.
Well he doesn't look 50 that's for sure. His hairline isn't great, but people in their 20s can have a fucked up hairline.
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In addition to people not smoking anymore, direct Sun exposure has dropped dramatically too.
I'm 40 and I look like the second picture
I have the body of the left but the clothing of the right.
The gabagool has a hold on you
There was a real missed opportunity to have a picture of Jason Alexander (who was in his 30's during most of Seinfeld's production) instead of James Gandolfini.
Still true tho
Yep, It's not only cigarettes, but air pollution too.
Great example of how stress ages you
Not stress, smoking, drinking and no sunscreen does that to you.
I don’t think stress is any less, but actually more than in the 90’s
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