Posted on 01/22/2015 8:04:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Alaska smokers will spend over $2 million.
American smokers spend at least $1 million dollars on cigarette-related expenditures over their lifetimes, according to a state-by-state analysis done by the financial consultancy company WalletHub.
The most expensive state for smokers is Alaska, where the habit costs over $2 million dollars on average. For a bargain, move to South Carolina, but that still comes in at nearly $1.1 million.
“I and most people really just think of the cost of cigarettes and taxes on the packs, but if you think about the healthcare costs, which can totally be avoided, healthcare insurance premiums, and in the workplace, bias against smokers, that can … add up,” said WalletHub spokeswoman Jill Gonzalez....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
$55 dollars a day for 50 years? Bullocks.
I’ve been trying to get my wife to quit for a long time. She did quit for seven years and then just started again one day. I asked he why she started again and she said, “I don’t know. I just felt like smoking.”
Her younger sister (44) is in the final stage of cancer and wasn’t expected to live past Christmas. I would think that would make her realize how bad smoking is.
Congratulations! Stay away from others who smoke as much as possible, especially early on. It can be difficult to be around other smokers.
Congratulations to you, as well! You can beat it.
Why does Time Magazine write like this? It's like saying 11" inches. It slams on the brakes in my head when I try to read it.
Hang in there BRK. Maybe some type of aversion therapy? 17 years though. You’re all there. Congratulations!
I’ve never been one.
Ronin, smoked twenty-five years, quit eighteen years ago - no urge at all now for years. It does get better! Sense of smell came back, endurance improved, thousands $aved on cigs and insurance premiums.
Stay the course!
I smoked for many years. Cigarettes and coffee got me through some hard times indeed! But I stank! I couldn’t go anywhere without making sure that pack of cigarettes and lighter were with me. I couldn’t do anything without taking time out to satisfy my nicotine craving. Just thinking about not being able to smoke would send me into a chain smoking binge!
Then, one day, I realized how much of a slave I was to those little tobacco filled cylinders and that I was indeed a drug addict just as much as the pill poppers I liked to think I was better than.
The first two weeks of quitting were rough, but after that I felt free and was amazed at how much better I felt and how much easier it was to breathe. As a little extra insurance, I started a monthly charitable donation with my cigarette money. Quitting has immediate benefits so think about it FRiends.
Time magazine has young liberal kids working there. They don’t understand the redundancy of writing $1 million dollars. Or many other issues of grammar, word choice, sentence structure, etc. The kids who work there are used to text messages.
Gotcha beat.
I’m down to 50 cents apack. :-p
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