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Poor people tend NOT to spend cash gifts on booze, cigarettes & drugs: rpt

Some people fear that handing over money to the poor creates a temptation for the indigent to spend it on vices like drugs, cigarettes or alcohol. But Yahoo Finance's Ethan Wolff-Mann has a story saying that's false.