Smoking Is Costing You 18 Million Dollars

First lets think about what smoking does your life. It raises the cost of your health insurance and life insurance. Your quality of life is less than if you did not smoke. Walking from one place to another will make you out of breath. You can develop Asthma, Emphysema, Lung Cancer, and Throat Cancer. Smoking will lead to a slow agonizing death. You will live for years gasping for each breath and will probably have to carry around an oxygen tank.

If your home has white walls they will turn yellow because smokers usually smoke inside. All of the items in your house smell like an ashtray, your breath stinks, it makes your teeth yellow, and kissing you is like licking an ashtray. Even when you brush your teeth and use Listerine the smell and taste is still trying to escape your lungs.

Smokers are never courteous of other peoples’ lawns. Have you ever driven up to a stop light and looked on the road or median next to you? The next time you pull up to an intersection, take a look around. Cigarette butts litter the area. Cigarette smokers have caused fires throwing butts out the car window.

Statistics show that the majority of smokers are uneducated. http://tobaccodocuments.org reports, “Philip Morris' internal findings of higher smoking rates among lower socioeconomic classes, as well as its findings that this group also has a higher incidence of both poor mental and physical health, it continued to promote its deadly and addictive products heavily among these groups.”

In the state of Florida you can no longer smoke in restaurants, some parks, even near some public buildings.

Everyone makes small purchases and think it is only $3.00 dollars or $4.00 dollars and that isn’t going to make a difference in anything.

If you invested the money that you would have bought a pack of Camel non-filters (studies show that the lower socioeconomic population buy non filter cigarettes) everyday from the age of 16 to the age of 76 in a decent growth stock mutual fund with the average yearly return of 12%, you would have $18 million dollars to retire with. Not only will you have your health, money, a longer happier life, but you would retire with dignity and not have rely on social security to make ends meet every month. Small purchases add up and cost you literally a fortune in the long run.