Cigarette Smokers, please don’t blame the messenger, but you’ve just been targeted and awarded another medal of disgrace to hang around your neck. 
Pacific Standard highlights it in their article “A New Stigma for Smokers“, which references a research study, that when it comes to borrowers, there may as well be an additional question asked… Do you smoke?
Tom Jacobs, the author of their article holds no punches, beginning it with:
People who light up on a daily basis “make poor decisions and experience worse outcomes with personal finances,” according to a new study.
Ouch.
You’ll want to find out why the research people were so damning, so please, click on through to the short read they have provided.
Our source for this news brief was the article “A New Stigma for Smokers” by Tom Jacobs for Pacific Standard
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