Why poor people usually smoke cigarettes?

@es0tericus they're trying to kill themselves. I know because I'm poor and smoke but have an education and self awareness.

No one wants to accept the truth lol

Before they could go to war and die but now that's not a realistic choice. Wars are safer than the streets often.

So they smoke, drink, do some drugs. Wake up every morning thinking why am I still alive. Light a cigarette and continue playing this passive aggressive game of Russian roulette.

I'm surprised there isn't more suicide bombers. But that's probably only because they are so programmed to think suicide is wrong and it'll shame their families and be considered weak. So they smoke hoping to die sooner to end the drudgery.

I actually quite like my low paid job at a charity with psychos and criminals. I might be smoking because I'm an adrenaline junkie. I'm not sure but my general analysis is they're hoping to die sooner.

@KaiserSolze That is just one perspective. I get what you mean, i considered that perspective too a long time ago, decided to withhold judgement on the root cause of smoking amongst the less fortunate, the core motivations, simply because there were too many variables.

It differs from individual to individual, and what you types and just one perspective from one individual.

@es0tericus could be. But think about it. People are unknowingly ruled by their subconscious. They know they'll die sooner if they smoke. They say they don't want to die but they smoke. Their subconscious brain wants to die because their life sucks but their conscious brain lies to them saying life's not so bad and maybe smoking won't kill you.

The subconscious brain if you stand too near railway tracks will in a moment want to throw you infront of a train, it usually doesn't because the moment passes so quick, and there's the lines you're programmed to stand behind on the train platforms but the subconscious brain does that. So smoking is a passive more socially acceptable way to kill yourself and the subconscious brain manipulates the conscious brain into doing it.

@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.