If you're a smoker it's no surprise to you that it's expensive hobby. Did you know it could end up costing you $15,000 extra each year?
Let's start with the smaller numbers first and work our way up. If you're a pack-a-day smoker you're probably dropping between $30 - $40 a week on cigarettes. If you're not a pack-a-day smoker yet you will be one day unless you quit so read on.
There are roughly 52 weeks in a year, so cigarettes can end up costing you an extra $2,080 per year. Even if you're spending within the minimum range of $30 per week that still adds up to $1,560 annually. For that much money you could make a down payment on a handsome car or pay off a sweet motorcycle. But instead you decided to guzzle poison. Bravo.
This estimated annual expense does not include additional side-effect costs from smoking cigarettes. You'll have higher dental costs, burnt or stained clothes that you must pay to replace, a loss of productivity from fatigue and insomnia, and other costs brought on by chronic and acute conditions your cigarettes gave you. In total, this could end up burning an extra $15,000 annually FROM YOUR WALLET.
If you want to get a better idea of exactly how much cigarettes are costing you, here is a link to Cancer.org's Handy dandy smoking cost calculator:
Check it out, it's very simple to use.
Oh, and just in case you are not yet convinced of how thoroughly smoking will wreck your @$$, here is a scary video to cement the idea in your smoke-veiled head:
Sources:
(12 April 2002) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs --- United States , 1995--1999. Retrieved July 11, 2012 from <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm>.
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