nonalien1 wrote:
Not necessarily shorter life spans. Just a lot of babies not making it to five years old. If you made it to puberty there was a good chance you could live to 80 or 90. Statistics and averages don't tell the whole story. We lost a couple years off our life spans due to C***D, but it doesn't mean we will all die two years sooner
The average lifespan of a male at the time of the Constitution. being written was thirty eight years