- A pack-a-day habit costs about $1000 a year.
- Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute and 15 billion are sold each day.
- A smoker who quits could save an employer an estimated $960 in excess illness costs each year.
- Smokers use medical-care benefits 50 percent more often than nonsmokers, at an annual cost of $230.
- In 2004, tobacco-related disease cost the state of Texas approximately $12.2 billion.
- In 2004, $1.6 billion of all Medicaid expenditures were for smoking-related illnesses and diseases.
- Every Texas household pays $586 each year in taxes to cover smoking-related government expenses.
- People who smoke in their car or their house may have trouble selling it later due to the smell of smoke.
A shockingly large amount of money is
lost each year due to this unnecessary habit.