It's called incremental or creeping tyranny. It's conditioning. Understand, fool?
I bet your VO2max is pathetic.
Fool?

Thank you for your concern and obvious sincerity. I've been following the shenanigans of the Money Master Mafia and the Black Nobility for 30 years. I am well aware of their methods.
FWIW, I am in fantastic shape and am not worried about partaking of a little tobacco, or drinking a reasonable amount of alcohol. I work on my feet all day long, running circles around my associates, most of whom are decades younger than I. They whine about doubles at work while I happily work them all the time, remaining affable all the while, hour after hour, day after day.
I had to look up VO2max, as only young, modern wannabes even know or care about such meaningless metrics. I also live in the woods, cut down trees, chop lots of firewood and, generally, do things daily that most moderns would consider too tough or beneath them. When I drove a garbage truck and threw trash in northern KY (for a company owned by a rock-solid Catholic family), even the saltiest old birds knew I was among the very best at the incredibly hard job we shared. Think before you speak; you'll live longer. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.
Godspeed.