Income level shapes overall living conditions, affects psychological functioning, and influences health-related behaviors like cardiovascular disease, such as diet quality , extent of physical activity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. Negatively affected psychological functioning can lead to a desire to cope with the help of expensive and harmful medications for the body, which can ultimately lead to more health problems later, for example: “Legislation, to the extent that it affects individuals, can also be very uneven. Taking high-quality cocaine as a successful stockbroker in New York is very different from stealing to finance your habit as an unemployed young man in downtown Washington, DC. And the care and treatment offered to these people will also be very different. The stockbroker will be able to afford purer powder cocaine, while unemployed youth will be much more likely to use crack” (Global Health Watch,