When people talk about how much smoking costs them, them almost always limit the cost to the cigarettes that they smoke. While this in itself is a lot of money over the course of a year, there are many other costs associated with smoking that tend to get overlooked when calculating the cost and the cigarettes can sometimes only be a small portion of the overall cost. While cost alone won't get anyone to stop smoking, if someone is looking for motivation to stop, here are a few things beyond the cost of the cigarettes to consider:
Smoking may increase your auto insurance costs.
Smoking may increase the cost of your health insurance
Smoking may increase the cost of your life insurance
Smoking may increase the cost of your home owner's insurance.
Smoking will likely increase your medical costs.
Smoking will likely increase the amount you have to pay for medications.
Smoking will decrease the resale value of your car.
Smoking will decrease the resale value of your house.
Smoking will decrease the resale value of many of your personal items.
Smoking will increase your cleaning expenses.
Smoking will increase your dental care expenses.
Smoking may cause you to earn less money.
Source: Cost Of Smoking
The True Cost Of Smoking
