And despite what you may have heard, smoking isn't an immediate death sentence either. It shaves a few years off your life expectancy, and increases your chance of cancer, but it pointedly doesn't kill you before you reach 40 very often.
Besides, not everyone smokes, which further dilutes the epidemic.
Again, if
everyone croaked before they reached 40, it'd be very noticeable. It'd leave a huge hole in the workforce, and what's left would have to learn to take care of all the orphans that would suddenly exist. Heck, that's 90+% of the leading politicians, dead.
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Which probably means not EVERYONE dies of "heart attack" before they reach their 40's. Akane certainly wouldn't have known her grandmother if that was the case. It could just be 5-6% of the population that can't deal with this, and end up expiring early. It'd hardly be universal, but it'd be enough to set back the average life expectancy. And it wouldn't change the fact that people who can compensate for the system are possibly living VERY long lives. It's like conflating life expectancy with high infant mortality. You're not going to get an accurate figure on how long elderly people tend to live if your average is mucked up by childhood deaths. Similarly, a segment of the population dying off in their late 30's doesn't keep the majority of the population from being long lived.
Statistics is a tricky business that requires extensive knowledge of math, impartiality and common sense...being insane pretentious artsy fartsy philosophical serial killers, Makishima and his latent criminal buddies probably aren't remotely inclined to objectively evaluate the figures they're citing. Especially when they have a "SHEEPLE SHEEPLE SHEEPLE!" axe to grind.
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Yeah, that's what I was getting at. There are enough that some people have noticed, maybe even started some kind of cover up standard procedure, but there can't be that many. Or possibly, it's not that drastic - maybe it hits retired people (who have motivation problems today) harder than those who have a job, for example. So it wouldn't be at age 40, for most of them.