Smoking (Cigarettes)
My parents snd 2 grandparents were major smokers. I avoid it until college when I started to hit the casinos.
Even when broke, I always found money for cigarettes.
If I’m outside at a local watering hole, no one bats an eye, do it outside the Mandarin or Daniel in NYC, you get side eye. When a VHNWI friend sees me smoking, she tells me that’s “not something you see in these circles, especially in NYC”.
I know it makes my clothes (some of which I’ve spend a tidy sum on) smell, bad for me in all sorts of ways, etc. But I’ve begun to feel like it’s seen as a “pleb” thing.
Good cigars, totally different attitude. Even cannabis people are much more accepting.
I’d love to quit, it’s a tough habit, and when I was younger quitting had a financial motivation. I quit for 7 years in the early 2000s and literally made a car payment every month with the money.
My question is, is it only my perception that smoking is looked down up MORE harshly amongst wealthy social circles?