The annual cost of tobacco use is
more than $50 billion in direct medical costs, for a total of 97
billion in health care costs and lost productivity.
If every smoker would smoke one less
cigarette per day it would cost the tobacco industry one to two
billion dollars per year.
In 2007, the US Centers for Disease
Control an d Prevention estimated that the heath care costs
associated with smoking were $10.28 per pack. (Lexington Herald
Leader Nov 25, 2007).
Smokers pay twice as much for life
insurance and will die an average of over 12 years sooner than
non-smokers.
Depending upon where you live in the
US a habit of one pack per day can cost up to $1800 per year.
Source: USMC National Health Naval Research Center - San Diego, CA.
If instead of smoking 2 packs per
day for 50 years, you could have had an estimated $1,000,000 if you
invested it in a major tobacco company (see calculator below).
The average cost of treating
squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck ( a cancer caused
almost exclusively by smoking ) is $25,542 more than the cost of
treating other comparable solid tumors (Lang 2004).
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Below is a
Calculator To Determine The Amount of Money You Have Spent On Tobacco
Products Over Your Life Time
The calculator only
determines estimate values. It is not to be used for investment
purposes. It is the users responsibility to check the validity of
all calculated values
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