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!!!! |
