We're talking years of increased life expectancy.
Sadly statin is not without its downsides.
Huh? Statins are a medication type in which increases in life expectancy are extremely hard to point to all. I think they're almost a "poster child" for medications that correct a problem to an extent but whose overall benefit is quite dubious.
(and given that these medications were highly prescribed before any long term studies were finish - creating considerable incentive for people to find benefit - I'd personally wager they are overall harmful but that's me guessing - the main point is they definitely aren't boost-life-expectancy-by-years drugs but probably aren't reduce-life-expectancy-by-years drugs either, given the studies)
Link from google: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531501/
There is no lobbying like the lobbying for massively selling classes of drugs of dubious effect.