A lady tells me she smokes and uses a food bank

As I have often stated. I question why people use food banks. It is clearly not due to benefits as most people who are on benefits have enough money. So the question one asks is do those who use food banks spend money on such as alcohol and sigs or are they in debt. In this case this lady informs us she smokes. It costs about £10 for a packet of sigs. So a packet a day would be £70 a week. I could not afford to smoke. I shop twice a week and spend £15 each time. I could spend less if I wanted to save money. One wonders if she stoped smoking would she have more than enough money for food. The truth is many people do not take responsibility for bad choices and blame others. Many seem to blame the conservatives. However even if Labour got in, do they think they would get more cash? I cannot see Labour increasing benefits not have I seen them claim they would. It is easy to blame others for your poor choices. By doing so it means you can carry on as you are, rather than change. I do suspect that the ‘How incredibly unintelligent is that attitude’ is something she has got used to saying to people when someone points out she is making poor choices. I often see people use this as a go to excuse. The problem with smoking is it often means poor health. Poor health means using the NHS. It it bizarre that those who claim to love the NHS seem also to make themselves Ill (self inflicted) so wasting NHS resources. Personally if your on benefits you should feel huge shame to use tax payers money to fund your drug use. Yet they will expect people to pay more and more tax. Why should people work hard to find drug use?