And Smoking The tobacco-homelessness link has long been known. In the families of those who earn meagre support its expensiveness is almost the equivalent of robbery of wife and children.
Destitution lies in the wake of tobacco . . . .
Here is a modern example of data on the subject. When Professeur Robert Molimard, Pr sident de la Soci t de Tabacologie, was head of a ward in Max Fourestier Hospital, Nanterre, France, in 1977, he opened a smoking cessation clinic. This hospital is specially devoted to Paris homeless. A large majority were chronic users of alcoholic beverages. This is not special to France, as shown in a Los Angeles survey.