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Here's what smoking costs you:

• cigarettes alone can cost $5,000+ a year for heavily-taxed smokers and heavy smokers

• TAXES.
  • Cigarettes are about $9 or 10 a pack ($70 a carton) in New York City after the cigarette tax increases (state + local = $5.26 government fees)
  • Chicago cigarette buyers pay around $9.36, but may have to fork over more than $10 a pack if Governor Pat Quinn's $1 extra per pack tax hike takes hold. Currently 98 cents a pack is the state tax
  • Connecticut cigarette buyers pay around $6.50 a pack. But state legislators want to raise the state tax from $2 to $2.50 per pack. Yes, $7 per pack total cost
  • Houstonians pay as much as $7 a pack
  • Rhode Island's state tax on cigarettes is $3.46 a pack
  • outh Carolina's has a 7 cent state tax per cigarette pack
  • in Canada, Albertans now must pay $3 more to buy a carton of cigarettes
  • China raises taxes 6 - 11 percent. Cheaper tobacco brands increased to 36 percent from 30 percent per carton. More expensive brands jumped from 45 percent to 56 percent
  • Taiwan's Department of Health raised the surcharge on each cigarette packet from 10 Taiwan dollars (30 US cents) to 20 Taiwan dollars (60 US cents)

• over $350 in related expenses every year (personal). Some smokers pay around $6,000+ a year in extra costs

• your health, maybe even your life (smokers die 13 to 14 years sooner than nonsmokers)
  • each cigarette smoked is estimated to cost smokers 5 minutes and 30 seconds of life
  • heart attack, heart disease
  • cancer (lung, mouth, stomach, throat, cervix, kidney, pancreas, bladder, etc.)
  • leukemia, stroke, abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • sexual impotence and complicated pregnancy
  • emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma
  • cataracts, periodontitis, pneumonia
  • addiction and depression
  • Alzheimer's, hearing loss, SIDS
  • sinusitis, nasal congestion
  • accidents
    • 1-percent of auto accidents were related to smoking, according to a study on driver distractions sponsored by the AAA auto association
    • fires

  • the health and well-being of your loved ones due to secondhand smoke, etc.
    • 8.6 million Americans are sick from Tobacco-related Illnesses, CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Vol. 52, No. 35: 842-844 and Vol. 52, No. 40: 953-956)
    • prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicine to relieve smoking-related aliments
    • inflated rates for life, health and home insurance
    • your embarrassing yellow or brown teeth
      • dentist bills
      • tooth-whitening pastes
    • air & breath (smoker's breath) fresheners
    • extra dry cleaning and laundry bills to remove the nasty smell from your clothes and person
    • items you must replace or refinish because of cigarette burns and smoke damage
      • clothes, rugs, furniture, upholstery, curtains, etc.

  • loss of freedom
    • finding "safe" places to light up
    • dealing with negative public opinion

  • time (yes, you lose the time of your life, literally)
    • think of all of the other things you could do (smoking’s opportunity cost):
      • lifestyle (especially partying)
      • enjoy family and friends
      • make money
      • learn

  • a new trend? New York smokers who order cigarettes over the Internet or by telephone can no longer have them delivered to their homes. It is now a Class A misdemeanor to ship cigarettes to anyone but a licensed dealer, a warehouse or a government official in New York State (see first point this section)
    • Michigan busts nearly 9,000 who dodged the state cigarette tax, mostly online and mail order buyers. Average bill was $650 and netted about $5.9 million in taxes overall. Michigan's $2-per-pack tax is the nation's fourth highest. Tobacco taxes, mostly from cigarette sales, generated $1.18 billion for Michigan in fiscal year 2005

"Smoking kills half of all lifetime smokers, Dr. Alex Bobak of the anti-smoking group SCAPE

NEWS FLASH

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$500 billion is lost each year in direct medical expenses, lost productivity and environmental harm worldwide

· $101 billion in health care costs for smoking in the US. $5 billion of that amount is spent on healthcare related to second-hand smoke. (March 2009)

· $97 billion in productivity losses occur from premature deaths caused by smoking, according to the Tobacco Burden Facts on the US, released by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Mumbai.

· Smoking costs the US up to $167 billion, every year. $75 billion of that in direct medical expenses, with the rest in lost productivity from ill patients missing work. That's more than $3,400 a year for health care and lost productivity each smoker (CDC)

· $9.7 billion a year is what Medicaid spends on smoking each year, according to a review of Medicare expenditures for 2000 through 2004 by RTI International

· In the UK, the NHS spends more than £5 billion a year on smoking and its related ailments

· Good news? Smokers, your early death from smoking is good for governments because it leads to savings on health care, pensions, welfare and housing for the elderly, according to a 2002 Philip Morris study conducted by Arthur D. Little International. “The bad news,” according to smoking cessation specialist and author Arthur A. Hawkins II, “is that you won’t be around to enjoy it”

· If governments around the world increase cigarette prices by at least 5-percent after inflation (tax) it could save as many as 10 million lives, a recommendation by The World Health Organization (WHO)

· The federal cigarette tax goes up 62 cents to $1.01 per pack on April 1, 2009.

· The same S-Chip Tax mentioned above raises cigar prices around 43-cents per cigar from from 5-cents

· To recoup some of cost of the April 2009 federal tax on tobacco some cigarette brands have raise prices in March to more than a dollar a pack or even 10 dolars a carton.

· 10 states raised the tax rates on cigarettes in the last year. Arizona lifted theirs 82 cents to $2

· 8 states now have a cigarette tax greater than $2 a pack

· A 75 cents per pack tax is the new Wisconsin state cigarette tax.

· Florida raised its "tobacco" tax by $1 a pack of cigarettes on July 1, 2009. It hopes to gain as much as $900 million

· Kentucky increased tax on cigarettes from $0.30 to $0.60 a pack in 2009 hoping to gain about $81.5 million a year in revenue

· Arkansas raised its tobacco tax by 56-cents per pack (March 2009)

· Indiana smokers will pay nearly $5 for a pack of cigarettes after the $1.01 in federal tax kicks in in April. The state has its own 99.5 cent per pack tax as well

· 72 percent of Minnesotans want to increase state tobacco taxes, currently $1.50 a pack, according to a poll by ClearWay Minnesota (March 2009)

· A 10-percent price rise in cigarettes would lead to 40 million people giving up smoking and stop many more from starting the habit, according to a World Bank report

· Nearly £5 billion a year is what tobacco drains from the UK economy, that's £13m a day

· Australian smokers spend $7.4 billion a each year on tobacco

· Smoking costs Ireland €650m (2007)

· Taiwan to double the health duty imposed on cigarettes to Taiwan dollars ($A0.88) from 10 Taiwan dollars ($A0.44 per pack) (January 2009)

· South Africa's 2009 Budget proposal raised a packet of cigarettes by 88 cents.

· Taxes and restrictive laws are mentioned as the cause for the drop in smoking in Arizona. Nationally the smoking rate is below 20 percent for the first time since the 1960s (CDC, December 2008)

· 12 states raised their cigarette taxes in 2005. 20 states have a tax of $1 or more and 5 have a tax of $2 or more

· Iowa raised raised its tax by $1 a pack in 2007

· Kentucky's "cigarette" tax rose to 30 cents per pack on June 1, 2005. This is up from a national low of 3 cents per pack and above the 10-cent tax in neighboring Tennessee. At nearly 31 percent, Kentucky has the nation's highest adult smoking rate, according to a report last year by CDC

· Virginia raised its tax to 20 cents a pack from a 2.5 cents in 2004

· The Bush administration rejected the US Department of Health and Human Services advisory committee's recommendation to increase the federal cigarette tax by $2 a pack and use at least half the revenue to help people kick the habit

· Each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States costs the nation $7.18 in medical care and lost productivity, according to CDC estimates

· Smoking costs the nation $167 billion every year, more than $3,400 a year each smoker, for health care and lost productivity (CDC)

· Active smoking leads to a 21-percent rise* in healthcare costs and a 28-percent increase in medication costs (The Journal of Health Affairs)

· Secondhand smoke costs nearly $10 billion every year in the United States, according to a study by The Society of Actuaries

· Smoking cessation programs may receive around $75 million of the 2009 economic stimulus bill

· About 5 million of today's teens will die prematurely from smoking, leading to about $200 billion in future health-care costs (CDC)

· In general, countries in Europe have higher taxes on cigarettes – surprisingly coupled with higher rate of smoking

· Taxes account for more than 70-percent of the price of a pack of cigarettes in Denmark and Portugal, according to Jacobson, lead author of Combating Teen Smoking: Research and Policy Strategies

· In Peru, the selective consumption tax (ISC) on cigarettes, beer and fuel rose, for the second time this year, to 37.5-percent from 30-percent

· In Japan, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa wants to increase the sin tax on smoking by about 30 cents per pack

· German cigarette sales slowed 5-percent in the first quarter of 2003 after the latest tax hike, according to the Federal Statistics Office. But the drop in cigarette sales was accompanied by a nearly 25-percent rise in the amount of (much cheaper) rolling tobacco bought in the same period

· $2.3 billion is what the British Columbian, CAN economy loses from smoking

· US Justice Department says cigarette makers should forfeit $289 billion in profits derived from a half-century of fraudulent, dangerous marketing, according to the New York Times (March 18, 2003)

· The 6 largest cigarette makers spent more than $11 billion on ads and promotions in 2001, according to a Federal Trade Commission report on cigarette sales and advertising

· 159 billion yuan ($19.8 billion) was the amount of cigarettes taxes the Chinese government collected in 2005, around 5 percent of fiscal revenues

· Smoking costs Florida over $20 billion per year. That's $6,942 per smoker or $17.22 for every $3.75 pack of cigarettes, according to The Florida Institute for Smoking Cessation (FISC)

· In Singapore, safety supervisor caught smoking in a Jetstar Airways airplane toliet got fined 1,000 Singapore dollars (719 US dollars), according to The Straits Times

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