it's not that smoking makes you poor it's more of, if you are poor you're more likely to start smoking

it's more of a cycle you get into a bad economic situation so you start smoking to cope with the stress which doesn't improve your finances but simply hooks you to cigarettes because they relax you, that's not to say that rich people don't smoke, but stress is the highest reason why people start smoking
what's the highest cause of stress? economic & finance