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What Could You Afford If You Quit

1 pack/day smoker:
1 pack a day for 1 week = $55.23
1 pack a day for 1 month = $236.70
1 pack a day for 1 year = $2879.85

What Can You Do With An Extra $2879.85?
Groceries?
Down payment on a car?
Pay off credit card debt?

2 pack/day smoker:
2 packs a day for 1 week = $110.46
2 packs a day for 1 month = $473.40
2 packs a day for 1 year = $5759.70

What Can You Do With An Extra $5759.70
Health Insurance for the Family?
A Weekend Vacation to the Coast?
Remodel a Room in your Home?

3 pack/day smoker:
3 packs a day for 1 week = $165.69
3 packs a day for 1 month = $710.10
3 packs a day for 1 year = $8639.55

What Can You Do With An Extra $8639.55
New Wardrobe for the Kids?
Private School Tuition?
Average Single Family Home Rent for 8 Months?

4 pack/day smoker:
4 packs a day for 1 week = $220.92
4 packs a day for 1 month = $946.80
4 packs a day for 1 year = $11,519.40

What Can You Do With An Extra $11,519.40
Pay Off Old Debts?
Buy A Used Car?
A Family Vacation To Remember?
 
Tobacco

  • 13% of 6th grade students in Benton County have tried cigarettes at least once
  • Over 177,000 kids are exposed to second hand smoke
  • 23.5% of adults smoke in Arkansas
  • 390 to 700 people die each year in Arkansas from someone else’s smoke
  • Being around secondhand smoke for two hours is like smoking four cigarettes
  • Kids who have parents who smoke are 3.3 times more likely to start smoking themselves.