Why poor people usually smoke cigarettes?

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@KaiserSolze I agree with you. Though we got to factor in addiction and its effects on the conscious/subconscious mind. Which could mean the individual is no long in a healthy state, capable of making decisions.

That second part though, I think, has a lot to do with honesty. If your subconscious mind is pushing you to suicide, it means somehow somewhere you have accepted suicide as the answer but lied to yourself. That, I believe is the fault within the individual, regardless of their material state of being.

@es0tericus you're wrong about suicide imo. Everyone is suicidal subconsciously. It has to do with underlying masochistic tendencies. And I don't mean BDSM. I mean masochism as in joining with everything - oneness rather than separateness. That's what causes the non-suicidal person to jump infront of the train in that fleeting moment.

For you to say suicide is not woven into the fabric of the mind suggests to me you buy all the propaganda that a person must be weak or deeply disturbed to suicide. It's not some kind of strength either, as the suicidal people like to say. It's just there in our subconscious. Possibly so in times of necessary sacrifice ie one life to save many someone volunteers.

Suicide is abhorrent to our society because people are commodities. Governments seek to keep us alive. Even prisoners are worth money. If that changes then we'll see the swing the other way because they will manipulate people to death. But i am cynical and love a conspiracy theory.

But the rest, above my last paragraph, that is my opinion based on my knowledge of psychology.

@KaiserSolze Then I guess I have nothing else to say. Thank you for enlightening me with your perspective.

Same with the liberals but what choice is there other than between the blue puppet or the red one. If the independents get more votes that just means blue or red have to sell themselves to the independent parties to win the hung votes. @TheOneyouwerewarnedabout

They’re already done. They were done when they knifed the Tony.. it’s cringworthy watching the train head for the end of the tracks lolz@SW-User

Especially without brakes lol.@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout

@chrisCA yea, yea, nice government churned out ideas. They're poor so they're trying to kill themselves without it looking like they're trying to kill themselves.

@KaiserSolze Being poor is more of a mindset, not a lack of money.
Your compassion is overwhelming. 😏

@chrisCA Being poor is definitely a mindset. The government and advertising feed us constantly that because we're financially poor we are poor. They use it to suppress the masses because the masses if unsuppressed terrify the establishment or the power people or whatever you want to call them. So when you say "it's a mindset" Yes it is, one people are fed from birth.

I can't do anything about it. I have no interest in doing anything about it. I'm observing.

How does anyone overcome all that as an individual, the constant brainwashing and manipulation and suppression? They can't. So they do seemingly dumb stuff to end it all a little bit quicker.

What the establishment / power people would be better doing is seeing their herds of people more like chickens. Battery chickens may produce more but they're sickly and the eggs have no flavour. Free range well cared for chickens produce much better eggs. But they're far too frightened to treat people as well as people demand they treat chickens so they underpay them, deny them the best medical treatment and brainwash them from birth that they're inadequate. To me it's all an unnecessary false economy but I'm a poor no one who knowingly smokes so it doesn't matter what I say.

@Grafimr Ok. I'm sure you have every right to judge.

@Grafimr Some are.

@SW-User I'm just wondering... I like to help poor people and I often do that, but in my country a lot of poor people spend a lot of money for cigaretes. They could buy much more food for their kids if they quit smoking. I will never understand it.

@xixgun I believe many of them are scammers.

@SW-User I'm going to celebrate by trying to kill myself with a cigar. We're all inherently miserable and suicidal. You're right. Lol

@PainfulTruth they're poor. They're hoping they get hep B and die.

@supersnipe they're just for depressed rich guys.

@KaiserSolze Well. Have you seen the markets? 😅

@chrisCA 😂

@MethDozer When I say educated, I mean people who are open to ideas on self improvement,and their overall well being. They read. They ask questions, and they listen.
Many people of the lower socioeconomic classes have the attitude of, "What do them doctors, and them scientists, with their fancy degrees know?"

@chrisCA I really don't think so. Very few actually believe it is anything but u healthy.

The bigger truth is they don't care. You don't care about long-term risks when you are always forced to make shirt term plans.