You’re the sort of person that buys a homeless person a sandwich of your choice, because then yYou can be virtuous and say “I bought them something healthy “ and then expect them to stop drinking/smoking/ taking drugs because you got them a fucking tuna wrap. It takes a lot more than that to get people to make good lifestyle choices, funny enough.
They don’t get money for cigarettes, they get money to live on, if their addictions make them spend more on cigarettes than food then they have less food.
I volunteer for a homeless charity that makes hot meals and the amount of people that are shocked that we offer a choice of meals, like meat, vege and coeliac tolerant choices and various things each week is amazing. They’re like well surely they can just give homeless people whatever and they should be grateful. Like being homeless stops you having choice of food you do, don’t like, stops you being gluten intolerant.
Do you actually thing they designate money they have to spend on cigarettes? No, you don’t, you’re just pushing your view it’s a waste of money. Which will be followed by “I’d rather buy falafel wraps with broccoli and carrot battons than cigarettes’, well off you go and do that, that’s your very cosy life but not the life of some.
Imagine someone looking through your shopping trolley and telling you have you can do better.