Yes, socio-economic status. I think being seen to afford it is the coping strategy here, not so much doing the thing as the thing itself is highly unlikely to be something else than a placebo. It's all curtain, no wizard. The French youth fishing urban waters may be much more real in effect than the high end stuff. One is escapist, the other is pretending to be. Also the assumption that sanity is a mask to maintain above a roiling sea of insanity is an odd comparison here wrt urban life. It makes the individual insane (or probably driven there) vs the insanity of systems.

This one makes sense to me. Mitigating symptoms of life style choices, rather than addressing those choices. At the lower socio-economic end because you don't have many options (smoking as only affordable relaxation e.g.), and at the higher end because the choices are what yields the higher socio-economic status, and the mitigation signals that status, and adds to it, helps define it, an aesthetic choice in Bourdieu's fashion (distinction theory / [[Goede smaak is klassebewustzijn 20220212075212]]. Still individual coping rather than facing the systemic factors causing them or organising [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] in the face of it.