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Calculating the Cost of Smoking
Ash for Cash - Burning Your Money
Smoking costs so much, even without the health costs! If you are on the minimum wage, smoking 20 a day and paying the average price for a packet of 20 cigarettes, you’ll be working for three months every year just to pay for your smoking habit! See the Giving Up Smoking website (www.givingupsmoking.co.uk) to calculate how much your smoking is costing you.
Cash for Ash - What You Could Buy if You Stopped Smoking
Smoking 20 cigarettes a day for a year costs between £1,700 and £1,800 at average prices.If you saved that money by stopping smoking, you could treat yourself, your family and friends to some real treats - and be healthier too! If you need any ideas for what that money could buy instead of those cigarettes, see the Go Smokefree website (www.gosmokefree.co.uk) and use the interactive calculator there.
For another calculator, go to the No Smoking Day website (www.nosmokingday.org.uk/smokers/moneycalculator.htm).
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