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.
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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!!!! |