Friday, December 09, 2011

Cigarette Pack: $15

As a youth I could buy 3 cartons of cigarettes for $15.00. New Yorkers now spend that for one pack: twenty cigarettes. That comes to 75¢ per cigarette. Crazy!


If ever there was a motivation to quit the cost looms large. A 2-pack per day smoker parts with thirty dollars every day. A month of thirty days calculates to $450. I can truly think of better ways to spend that kind of money month-to-month. (OMG… one year costs approximately $5,400.00.)


Why do people shell out this kind of money? The answer in one word. Nicotine. Highly addictive. On the level of heroin as to how our brains latch on to nicotine's effects.


Yet, as an ex-smoker, I know that quitting is possible once one makes up his or her mind to stop.


The majority of smokers wish they didn't. Are you an ex-smoker? Are you a smoker who would like to quit?

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