CTW Members Rick D Posted June 24, 2003 CTW Members Share Posted June 24, 2003 James said: The following facts have been compiled by a gentleman who has had the misfortune of suffering a stroke, We hope it will, perhaps, give others food for thought regarding smoking ... I smoked 30 cigarettes a day. The cost of each cigarette in 1999 was 16p. The cost of a day's cigarettes was, therefore, £4.80. The cost of a week's cigarettes was £33.60. The last year was a leap year (366 days); 366 x 30 cigarettes = 10,980. 10,980 cigarettes I smoked in one year. 10,980 at a cost of 16p. each = £1,756.80! The cost of one year's cigarettes. I had been smoking for 35 years. The first 10 years I smoked around 20 a day = approximately 73,000 cigarettes The next 25 years I smoked 30 a day = approximately 273,750 cigarettes. This means I would have smoked around 346,750 cigarettes in my life. It takes around 7 minutes to smoke one cigarette. This means I smoked for the equivalent of 3 1/2 hours each day. Over 35 years I have spent approximately 1,685 days or 240 weeks or 4 years and 7 months smoking! Plus the time looking for a light. The length of a cigarette is approximately 4" x 346,750 = 1,387,000 inches Placed end to end this would stretch for almost 22 miles. If the cigarettes were purchased in packs of 20, I would have bought a total of 17,337 packs. Laid flat on top of each other the packets would reach over 1800 feet high. Laid end to end these packets would be almost 2 miles long. When I first started smoking a packet of 20 cost around 4 shillings or 20p. My habit then cost £1.40 per week or £73 per year. Had I chosen to invest the money rather than spend it on cigarettes at an annual interest of 4% per year I could have saved £36,133.80 over the 35 years. After years of being weak willed in trying to kick the habit I finally gave up on the 27th January, 2000. It was really quite easy - for years I had read the health warnings but thought I was invincible!!!! Didn't realise you were that old James?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTW Members sentialSteve Posted June 26, 2003 CTW Members Share Posted June 26, 2003 I went out clubbing last Friday, stayed up all night and day as usual and smoked too much, went to bed saturday night and was really out of breath, thought '[censored] this, tomorrow im giving up' and i did, was really easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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