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Smoking Cost Calculator

See what smoking costs in money — and what quitting could earn invested.

Habit details
$
yrs

Cost over 10 years

$32,850

Per year

$3,285

Per month

$274

If invested at 7% instead

$47,382

The compounding cost

A pack a day at $9 burns $3,285 a year — but the deeper cost is the alternative: the same money invested at 7% grows to roughly $47,000 in ten years and $170,000 in twenty. Higher insurance premiums for smokers widen the gap further.

Quitting pays immediately

Health returns start within days (circulation, taste) and compound for decades — a year out, heart-attack risk has already dropped by half. Most successful quitters needed several attempts; each one is practice, and support plus medication doubles success rates.

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