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The True Cost of Smoking
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Smoking is not only harmful to your health but also extraordinarily expensive. A pack-a-day smoker at $10 per pack spends $3,650 per year and over $36,500 in a decade.
The opportunity cost is even greater. If that money were invested at a 7% annual return instead, it would grow substantially. Quitting smoking provides both immediate health benefits and significant long-term financial savings.
Common use cases:
- Motivating smoking cessation
- Calculating lifetime smoking expenses
- Understanding opportunity cost of smoking
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Dr. David Park
Applied Mathematician, PhD Mathematics
David holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from MIT. He has published research on numerical methods and computational algorithms used in engineering and scientific calculators.
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