Please reference something to back that statement up, if you expect others to.
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Why do so many ghetto people smoke?
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Please reference something to back that statement up, if you expect others to.
mikem
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I've worked for 4 or 5 smaller places over the last 20 years or so, none of us in the office smoked yet a high percentage of the shop workers did. My kids have played travel hockey for years, there is always a percentage of parents that head out for a smoke during the games but go to a Hamilton arena and that percentage goes up huge. I still remember a game at an arena down near the steel plants, as I was coming out the door I watched as a mom handed her two kids each a smoke. One looked to be around 12 or 13 the other was probably no more than 10, I was speechless. I think environment and acceptability has a lot to do with whether people smoke.
For all you fine looking ladies, smoking ages you prematurely.
I don't expect anyone to back anything up, it's clearly anecdotal.
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There's no cause and effect relationship, to support that theory. Another failure of a newspaper to correctly headline a story, because the story itself states a lack of clarity regarding the issue.
As nicotine is a vasodilator which has been shown to increase blood flow to the brain, and has been shown in decades old studies to provide a temporary increase in effective IQ, I would say it's more likely that people with lower aggregate IQs tend to smoke.
stormcat
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I'd like to know how "ghetto" people can afford to smoke with how much a pack of cigarettes costs. $12 for a pack of 25 is pretty steep.
As for a typology of people who smoke and why some people continue to smoke, IMO, it's highly individualized and has nothing to do with class, status, income, educational attainment, gender, or any other variable you attempt to throw in the mix. People who continue to smoke despite the fact that society views it as reprehensible, may do so based on physiological differences. The same as how some people are alcoholics. For some people, it's not that easy to simply stop. And for people like me, who are fully cognizant of the detrimental effects of smoking on the body, they still engage in that highly self-destructive activity regardless. I'm not stupid. Smoking is terrible.
I find it interesting how many 'kinds' of people continue to smoke. From medical doctors to technicians to artists and graphic designers to academics. Every kind of job I have worked in has its smokers. There are still lots of smokers out there from every walk of life.
As for a typology of people who smoke and why some people continue to smoke, IMO, it's highly individualized and has nothing to do with class, status, income, educational attainment, gender, or any other variable you attempt to throw in the mix. People who continue to smoke despite the fact that society views it as reprehensible, may do so based on physiological differences. The same as how some people are alcoholics. For some people, it's not that easy to simply stop. And for people like me, who are fully cognizant of the detrimental effects of smoking on the body, they still engage in that highly self-destructive activity regardless. I'm not stupid. Smoking is terrible.
I find it interesting how many 'kinds' of people continue to smoke. From medical doctors to technicians to artists and graphic designers to academics. Every kind of job I have worked in has its smokers. There are still lots of smokers out there from every walk of life.
Fighting about who smokes and who doesn't is even more ghetto then ghetto people smoking.
Not to mention opening up the lungs prior to one of the Category 5 climbs in the Tour de France.
Not to mention opening up the lungs prior to one of the Category 5 climbs in the Tour de France.
Only the menthols.
You'd think with the cost of a Doctorate Program, they'd throw in a few comprehension courses gratis.
One less competitor to worry about.
She's got a big nose.
ATTS
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One less competitor to worry about.
You can have her, I think she looks like crap in that pic with or without the smoke.
I prefer blondes
I prefer attractive women.
And LOL at all of the ruffled feathers in this thread. Some of you need to relax and have a smoke.
stormcat
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Really? For one thing, Kellen did not substantiate his 'finding'. Second, it's quite easy to make an inference to what Kellen is saying, 'between the lines' so to speak, with his statement regarding smoking and ghetto.
It seems to me that you and Kellen are lacking in the self-esteem department necessitating your need to bash the vices of others to prop yourselves up. Feel better now? And what's your vice, btw? Drinking? Smoking pot? Never getting enough sleep? Eating poorly? Not getting enough exercise? Everyone has a vice. The problem emerges in what society views as acceptable and unacceptable in vices.
Native smokes $25 for 200 or the cheap packs for $6-7 a pack. Hell their kids don't have food but they have their smokes.
Kellen said why is it that more ghetto people smoke? You got in his face for calling all smokers ghetto. If you can't see the difference, I really can't help you. I could try typing it out slower, but I don't see it changing the outcome.
I can tell you that boasting that I'm smart on the internet isn't one of them.
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