This doesn't count what I spent on burnt clothes, days off work because I was sick, and medicine. Tobacco is the most heavily advertised product in the world. Tobacco kills over 430,000 people in our country every year. Just one cigarette can speed up the heart by twenty beats per minute. Teens who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijauna, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine.
Smoking is associated with many other risky behaviors, such as fighting and having unprotected sex.
Most people who quit smoking don't make it the first time. In fact most people try five or six times before they are successful. On the average, someone who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes each day lives seven years less than someone who never smoked.