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.
$5 X 365 = $1,825 (five bucks a pack/day for a year)
$1,825 X 51 = $93,075
I have no idea how much a pack costs in South Carolina but, even if you go to $20/pack you’re nowhere close.