Dang! I could use that extra money. I’d spend it on smokes :-)
in 1976, I had been smoking around 15 years and smoking around 2-3 packs a day.
I went deer hunting in November for the first time in around 5 year and was winded climbing the hills....
I was too young at 27 to be winded climbing those hills...
I quit then and there....no patch, no gum, no special medicine............it hurt to quit....for weeks, it hurt. then it didn’t. I still craved for years, but not physical, but mental craving....37 years later I still occasionally think about having a cigarette...but don’t.
Did we pay for this study? (Just wondering.)
The should have standardized for geographic location, ethnicity, sex, age, &c.
The people who gave up smoking do illustrate an admirable level of self-control and determination, as well as an interest in health.
I suspect that there is also a big negative correction between tattoos and income, also. Tattoos indicate a lack of self respect, particularly for one’s person. As tattoos always run with age (and never look good on old skin), a person getting a tattoo probably manifests a short-term view, perhaps having inculcated too much of the popular “live-in-the-moment” attitude so common today among junk psychologists and phony preachers.
Sounds like a false link to me...
They include in the set of non smokers the subset of former smokers. Unless those former smokers get new jobs there is no reason for their wages to rise at all, other than normally. So if you say that they quit and their wages went up, unless you can tie it to smoking itself, it means nothing.
Now it could be that smokers don’t get hired in the first place..that would surely be valid as companies screen for the habit to limit future health liabilities. In that sense smokers would make less because there are those whose wages are zero because of the number never hired.
I like starting again because quitting is so much fun.
Higher wages linked to better impulse control. Who knew?
Don’t forget a 2 pack/day smoker spends over $4,000 per year on smokes, maybe more depending on where you live.
so, if you want your kids to have high paying careers, you want to get them to start smoking, and then quit - right?
My mother used to smoke 3 packs a day...until she had to have half a lung removed because of it. The doctor told her, essentially, “Stop smoking or die”. She stopped.
That was 40 years ago, and she’s still here.
Smart people give it up when the perceived risk exceeds the perceived benefit/pleasure.
Former smokers make more money because everybody almost tries smoking in college so college graduates are over represented among former smokers.
It's tough and I would never lecture a smoker to quit. You have to want to do it.
i was a smoker for 40 years.. last month i had a stroke..
fortunately for me, no physical damage, but i am just beginning to learn about the mental damage i have suffered..
want the unadultered motivation to quit smoking??
spend 5 days in the stroke ward of your local hospital..
What’s soetoro’s excuse?
Or just maybe it has to do with motivation and goals.
According to this logic, former heron addicts should be earning more money than anyone.
After all, they’ve shown persistence, self-control and dedication by battling their addiction. Why aren’t all employers looking for their CEO’s at AA meetings?
There are lies, damn lies and statistics.