Gee RNE, I'm glad you got that out of your system.
It's true, it's pretty dark down there in that hole.
And you're absolutely right. "Planet and it's leaders gone wild".

I do believe that Mother Earth is responding in chorus to us, the fleas that live on her back.
She is acting because she WANTS us to notice and feel responsible.
For as large a population as we are, many more are being more born who see this insanity and won't put up with it. So change is coming. Slowly, but it's coming.

Now as to personal crutches. You need to have some awareness what the body/mind is doing to the host. Because years of abuse WILL take it's toll in the end. My dad smoked until he was 60, mostly rolled his own. Or just opened a pack of Players (a Canadian brand) when he was busy.
At 75 he had emphyzema and a pacemaker. He's still kicking at 84, but he's miserable.
My girlfriends mother is on a tank of oxygen at 79 and has very few months to live.

So, what it is you don't like about yourself? Why has something as innocuous as tobacco dipped in chemicals rolled in paper making you a slave? You should laugh in it's face! Tell it to get lost! Throw it away! What about the people who care about you? What about YOU? Don't you care enough to recognize it is ONLY YOU that holds those "chains" that bind you to those penil thin health robbers?

Getting your head straight to anything that isn't good for you is challenging responsibility.
Hell, even I slip every now and then.
But only YOU hold the key to that behaviour. Do you take better care of a homeless wounded animal than you do yourself? Why?
You may think it's magical to be "chained" to something....anything.....but it's your "shadow-self" (that little devil sitting on your shoulder telling you you CAN'T do it), when in reality, you can knock him off your shouilder, throw away the key to the cell that keeps you "locked in" and walk out into the sunlight.

Have that talk with yourself, and get rid of your shadow self. Come out into the light.
It's where you belong.