Why poor people usually smoke cigarettes?

@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.