Question on wizards aging.

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 114140

Finwitch;

I can think of several other reasons that wizards have longer life-
span - it's not JUST because they're magical:
 
 1. No wizard smokes (at least I have never seen one do so, and I 
doubt JKR makes one), and thus they avoid several lethal (and 
painful)
lung-diseases.

Becki responds;

I can recall several off the top of my head...

...Professor Grubbly-Plank comes to the door of the staff room
with a pipe in her mouth to address Harry's concerns of Hedwig
being attacked in OoP.
...When he first entered the Leaky Cauldron he is describing it
and sees a "few old women sitting in a corner, drinking tiny
glasses of sherry.  One of them smoking a long pipe".
...and the first time Harry is in the Three Broomsticks he describes
it as *smoky*.

I don't know if all of that increases a wizards chances of getting
cancer, if they even get cancer, but they do smoke.

Becki