The stress that smoking presumably relieves aggravates the possibility of ill health and addiction, it's like just making something bad to make another thing goo, but I understand, the world is a hard place, I have a chronic condition and in the past I did a lot of things to help me cope with the pain and all
Exactly. Smoking at most feels good at the moment because of the nicotine, but we know how many illnesses it provokes or potentiates.
Yet, some life situations still pushes some people to indulge
They do. Not having enough money for daily expenses is a pretty powerful reason.