And that's just for Hostess Twinkies.
Gas prices are even worse.
So in fact there is no mathematical way to tell WHAT they are paying. Step 1, of course, is to file a class-action lawsuit against the cigarette companies. They have nothing to do with gasoline, but juries really hate them, so we'd probably win several hundred billion dollars. But that is a short-term answer. To truly solve this problem, we must understand how the oil business works.