According to Gallup, the once-common habit of smoking cigarettes is slowly fading in the US, with younger generations losing interest in it.
However, cigarettes continue to play a role in the lives of many people. And it was a costly one.
Pennsylvania was placed 15th overall in a WalletHub research that examined the states with the highest smoking expenditures. It was shown that the typical smoker in the Keystone State spent more than $4.3 million during their lifetime.
Metrics like daily cigarette pack purchases over several decades and the possible health care expenses associated with cigarette use are included in this estimate. Over an extended length of time, the latter was shown to cost Pennsylvanians an average of $191,452.
The Empire State was predicted to spend just under $5.4 million on smoking over the course of a lifetime, making New York the state that spent the most overall.
With an average cost of nearly $5.3 million, Washington, D.C., came in second, followed by Maryland, which also cost over $5.3 million.
According to Chip Lupo, a WalletHub analyst, although smoking has significantly decreased in the United States in recent decades, around 50 million Americans still use tobacco products. The hidden costs of smoking are far more than the hundreds of thousands of dollars you could spend on cigarettes over the course of your adult life.
Smokers lose out on millions of dollars over the course of their lifetimes that they could have earned by investing the money they spent on tobacco. Additionally, smokers typically earn less money, have higher health care expenses, and pay more for house insurance.
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