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Assessing the COST to Your Health & Your Finances.
- What age were you when you started?
- How many cigarettes per day do you smoke?
- How long (years) have you smoked that many?
- How many drags (inhalations) does it take for you to finish a cigarette?
- What is the average cost of a packet of 20 cigarettes over the time you have smoked?
So to help you do your sums, here is an example........................
- Sharon is 37 years old - she has been smoking since she was 16.
- She smokes on average 20 cigarettes per day - over a period of 21 years.
- It takes Sharon 10 drags (inhalations) to finish a cigarette.
- The average cost of a packet of 20 cigarettes over her smoking life is 7.00 euro.
CALCULATE
- 10 drags per cigarette X 20 cigarettes per day = 200 drags of a cigarette that Sharon takes into her body EVERYDAY.
- 200 drags per day X 365 days in a year = 73,000 drags per year.
- 73,000 drags per year X 21 years (the number of years Sharon has been smoking) = 1,533,000 (1.5 million drags)
- How many cigarettes does Sharon smoke in a year? 20 per day x 365 days = 7,300.
- That is 365 packets in one year X 21 years, that is 7,665 packets X 7.00 euro per packet.
- Sharon has spent 53,655 euro to kill herself over her smoking life.
DO YOU STILL THINK SMOKING IS WORTH IT?
The pictures on this page relate to the "stuff" that Sharon could have purchased if she had not smoked.
But the best gift she could have given herself would have been a clean set of lungs and a longer life!
Pehaps it is time for you to stop?
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