To "blue collar" types, drinking a couple $7 craft beers on a weekend is elitist and pretentious, but spending $50 per week on cigarettes is just being a regular guy. I could drink a glass of good scotch every evening for the same amount that a lot of people spend on their smoking habit, yet the scotch is considered by many to be hoity toity while the cigs are not.
Why isn't smoking seen as a lavish display of excess?
blue collar people be crazy wrote:
To "blue collar" types, drinking a couple $7 craft beers on a weekend is elitist and pretentious, but spending $50 per week on cigarettes is just being a regular guy. I could drink a glass of good scotch every evening for the same amount that a lot of people spend on their smoking habit, yet the scotch is considered by many to be hoity toity while the cigs are not.
Why isn't smoking seen as a lavish display of excess?
It’s not about the price, it’s about the amount of thought that goes into it. The amount of thought and conversation about beer/scotch that those “hoity toity” people have about it is annoying. Just drink beer, don’t make it your personality. That’s their point of view
Dies it really cost $50 a week to smoke?
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Dies it really cost $50 a week to smoke?
Average price of a pack is $8. Pretty typical for smokers to smoke a pack per day.
blue collar people be crazy wrote:
To "blue collar" types, drinking a couple $7 craft beers on a weekend is elitist and pretentious, but spending $50 per week on cigarettes is just being a regular guy. I could drink a glass of good scotch every evening for the same amount that a lot of people spend on their smoking habit, yet the scotch is considered by many to be hoity toity while the cigs are not.
Why isn't smoking seen as a lavish display of excess?
It has nothing to do with cost. Drinking only a "couple of beers" on the weekend is what is hoity toity. To be "blue collar" you need to be able to put away at least a case every night.
Smokin a pack a day to own the libs.
A lot of thought goes into smoking also, but it’s subconscious. most smokers are addicts. To them smoking is just a part of their daily routine and blends w their daily activities. I’m not sure that smoking is ‘blue collar’ but definitely associated with low income in the US
Meanwhile a bourbon tasting on the weekend is bourgeois …fair or not?
In Australia a packet of cigs is like 30 us dollars. So it costs over a thousand us dollars per months.
Also... from what I remember... not sure if this is Aus. But I do know in NZ they are making it illegal to smoke and it goes up in age each year, so say one year you have to be 18, next year 19, next year 20, and so on.
Interesting hey?
Because the herd of sheep wants to shame people that are better than them and drag them into their pit of misery . So the rich scotch addict is criticized for his purchases but these sheep spending money on stupid things is normalized and socially acceptable amongst the herd of losers. They criticize the thing/s they wouldn't do until they do it themselves. You know what else these sheep wouldn't do, anything notable or ever get rich. Know your role and shut your mouth is the message they need pounded into their conceited cranium.
Does that apply to all smokers or just the poor ones? What about cigars or cigarillos? Don't ou have a cigar in Vegas? Maybe you don't.
I had an ex who smoked. We dated for 5 years. She had a great job and her dad/family was rich. She went to private schools was fairly bright. She smoked less than a pack per week, but because it was her, I never found smoking to trashy.
In college, back in 80’s to mid 2000’s lots of girls smoked anyways. If you went to any bar, doesn’t matter the caliber, people still smoked.
I don’t consider myself to be trashy for drinking crappy beer, eating Doritos, or a frozen pizza every two weeks.
I find trashy mainly to be an attitude/behavior thing.
The price of cigs wrote:
Does that apply to all smokers or just the poor ones? What about cigars or cigarillos? Don't ou have a cigar in Vegas? Maybe you don't.
I believe it's applicable to all because the herd attacks the thing/s they don't do because they're not intelligent to understand what they don't experience themselves and they subconsciously intend for others to fit into the pit of misery or be shamed by the loser herd.
Oh right. Thanks for the clarification. I will have a think about this.
I don't smoke or like smoking tbh.
Where do you live where you can get craft beers for $7? That seems like 2016 prices.
