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It has been a trend for several decades that in the general population women live few years longer than men on average.
However, in cloisters the gap disappears: nuns live about as long as women in the general population, and so do monks.
This is based on a German study (small decline in life expectancy for monks in the 1970s coincides with permitting monks to smoke cigarettes):
https://www.allianz.com/en/press/new...013-09-11.html
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