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It’s The Price You Pay

Smoking cost even more when you consider the cost of lifelong illnesses. If you are a smoker, it’s no surprise that smoking is downright expensive! There are even calculation cost tools on the internet to see how much you’ve spent on cigarettes over the span of days, months and even years. Do you have any idea how many cigarettes you have smoked in a given time period? Think of all the other useful and productive items you could have bought instead of that stick of tobacco.

The effects of smoking cigarettes are known worldwide and are known to affect your health in an extremely harmful way, but it is not just your health that you should be worried about. You should be concerned about how much money you are throwing away by increasing your risks of harm for your long-term health. An everyday smoker goes through large expenses just to keep his/her unhealthy lifestyle. For example, you spend an average of $12 on a pack of cigarettes each day. That would end up being a cost of $84 per week which would be equivalent to $4,368 a year. To put this into perspective, if you purchase a pack of cigarettes every day for 10 years, you would have spent enough money to buy a new car.

On the other hand, the costs of smoking far exceed the cost of buying cigarettes. By now, close to everyone knows that smoking can lead to diseases such as cancer, emphysema, and lung disease. Smokers are often diagnosed with diseases and spend countless amounts of money finding cures for such diseases. Sometimes the people who find a cure need to undergo treatment which can also be quite the expense. This goes to show that the costs of smoking, add up making it an expensive habit for many people. It is the right choice to quit now!