Posted on 10/20/2013 5:43:53 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Many people smoke after they've eaten. Lindell Harvey smokes because he hasn't.
"You smoke out of anxiety because you don't have the food you need," said Harvey, 54, who lives alone in Crum Lynne, Pa. He receives disability checks from the Navy that keep him $2,000 below the poverty line.
Harvey relies on his Newports to see him through his hard days. "In my mind, the smoking becomes a comfort as I try to create ways to get food."
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In the world? I thought Vinales in Pinar del Río had that claim.
/johnny
Don’t cigarettes cost about 6 bucks a pack? What’s that? The World’s Smallest Violin.....
I have read a lot about POW camps in WWII. It has always surprised me how many near starvation inmates would still trade some of their food for tobacco when some was available.
I grew up on a tobacco farm, Tobacco is a weed. It will grow anywhere. As a crop it is labor intensive, and cigarettes are blends of different kinds of tobacco.
Most of those who smoke would find the tobacco they grow to be pretty coarse compared to cigarettes. The same with chewing tobacco, It is mixed with sugars and other ingredients, but yes. You can chew it right from the leaf.
I was upset when they started outlawing smoking I bars and public places, but now I kind of like going places without my eyes burning and a dry throat from smokers. I have never smoked I suppose because my father and mother never smoked, and I never saw much to the habit.
If this guy has money to buy cigarettes there is no excuse for his being hungry.
“I keep hitting myself in the head with a hammer because it feels so good when I stop”>>>>>>>
LOL! That is going to made me laugh all day, great line!
Obamacare should allow docs to write prescriptions for medicinal smokes.
Right.
A quick calculation: $7/pack x 2 packs/day = roughly $420 per month or $5000 per year.
The 2013 Poverty Guidelines average is $11,490 for 1 person. The guy in the article receives $2,000 under the poverty level, so his income is about $9,490.
“...well that is YOUR problem. So you stay away from places where people smoke....problem solved.”
And then, retailers and restaurants realized they were losing business because non-smokers WERE staying away...and they changed their rules to accommodate the larger group of spenders...the non-smokers...problem solved.
Something is wrong with this picture.... I just can’t put my finger on it....
Chicken necks, rice and a side of cabbage.
Been there done that.
The liberal text book answer to everything. At some point, you have to buck up and do something for yourself. Plus, liberalism is, more than any other factor, responsible for their poverty in the first place. Irony.
Nearly every poor person I have known smokes and owns animals (which have to be fed, etc).
Growing tobacco is big (or used to be big) here in western Wisconsin which is further north than Ohio. You don’t need a year-round warm climate to grown tobacco.
Hey watch it, animals are a necessity for some of us. don’t mess with my dogs! :)snort))))))
One could predict this piece (of crap) from the Ledger. It is so party line with that bunch of NYT offspring.
When I lived in Lakeland in the 80s it was a nice (albeit rather parochial) place. It’s not now. Crime in general is high, juvenile crime is awful, the police dept is inept and corrupt. The offices of mayor, city manager and council seats are nothing but musical chairs for the same incestuous bunch of jerks for the last 25 years.
Hmm, I’ve just described every liberal city.
When I was a kid fifty years ago, it seemed virtually all adults smoked. I’ve since realized a number of my neighborhood adults didn’t smoke or rarely smoked, but my parents smoked up a storm. The picture I remember most of my mother from my childhood is her taking a deep drag on a cigarette with the other hand on her hip. Papa wasn’t much better. That turned me off ever wanting to smoke. The sad thing is I never noticed a tobacco smell on my clothes as a kid after leaving a smoker’s house. Now when I go in some place where people smoke, the stinky smell is obvious and I have to get into fresh clothes as quick as possible.
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