never would have guessed

Study: On average, bad habits make life 10 years shorter
    No, really?!
    My former spouse and I used to marvel at stuff like that. First, it's an incredibly stupid headline. 'Stupid' in the sense of "meaningless," not unintelligent. But more importantly, why would anyone do a study on something so utterly obvious? Not the '10 years' part (and, really, how could such a thing be quantified? Yes, I know, if I read the study I could tell that, but "bad habits" and "10 years" do not necessarily equate.) but the idea that bad habits are, well, bad for you.
    No kidding.
    There really is someone out there who's willing to pay for just about anything. Some university, some grant-funding source, some institution of "higher" "learning", some person with way too much money and way too little common sense, who's willing to fork over cash because someone else could tidily present an application detailing a study that was set out to determine if, in fact
    Bad habits.
        Are, actually.
            Bad.
    Holy crap.