Everyone knows that smoking is bad and you shouldn’t do it. Despite this, people still choose to light up. If addiction is your problem, maybe looking at the cost of smoking may help to change your mind, especially in this type of poor economy.
Here are the stats and costs:
- Average price of a pack of cigarettes (2011) = $4.80
- Cost over a year smoking a pack a day = $1,747.20
- In New York, this number can go over $3,000 annually!
If $1,747.20 were instead invested with a (small) 5% interest rate, that money would be worth over $130,000 in 30 years!
This number doesn’t even include the associated health costs that go hand in hand with smoking, which can be in the many thousands, especially if one has to get treatment for lung cancer.
Smoking is one of the fastest and quickest way to increase your health dramatically. Studies have also shown that for chronic smokers that quit before the age of 30, if they never smoke again, the body is able to heal itself so that their lungs can get almost as healthy as one that has never smoked! Please do yourself a favor and kick the habit. If you don’t smoke, but know others that do, try and help them along as well. For those that need extra help, also consider chiropractic as a way to help curb your addiction.
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