Thanks for the links-——but they are ridiculous———they include health care costs and lost income due to illness———which is something they have no way of proving are smoking related.
Making a blanket statement that smoking costs 2 million over a lifetime is utter nonsense.
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As I stated before, it’s your life, and your money to do with as you please.
I personally will save the principal I amass and live of the cash flow it generates and leave it all to my children when I pass, along with the lessons I used to attain it and a first rate education needed to keep it.
As long as you don’t try to get the government to eventually rob ME (in the form of taxes) to pay for your decisions, it’s no skin off my back.
quote from another article:
By far, the largest expense incorporated into the per-person total is the “tobacco cost per smoker,” measured at $786,346 in South Carolina, up to roughly $1.5 million in Alaska. WalletHub came up with that figure by multiplying the average price of a pack of cigarettes in each state by the number of days in 51 years. Fair enough. There are cheaper ways to go about buying cigarettes, like buying smokes by the case, but many people purchase by the pack.
http://time.com/money/3676521/smoking-costs-lifetime/
can easily be over a million on just the simple cost of the cigarettes alone, not even including the lost potential of compounding interest.