{"id":99,"date":"2008-07-13T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salexander.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-02-16T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:34:19","slug":"the-dollars-spent-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"The dollars spent smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across an interesting calculator today. This calculator (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthstatus.com\/cgi-bin\/calc\/calculator.cgi\">http:\/\/www.healthstatus.com\/cgi-bin\/calc\/calculator.cgi<\/a>) lets you figure out how much you spend annually on cigarettes. You put in how many cigarettes you smoke each day, how many are in a pack, and how much they cost. At a 2-pack per day habit, with $6.79 per pack cigarettes, the net cost is just under $5000 per year. If you figure the cost goes up to $6.85 per pack, just a 6 cents per pack increase, you hit that magical $5000 per year cost. Of course, that is just for the cigarettes and not the $4 or higher gas spent picking them up!<\/p>\n<p>I know that you know that smoking is bad for you, but it\u2019s pretty staggering to look at this from a purely financial perspective. Calculating how much money one person can spend on smoking when the price is so high is an interesting financial study.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is the scare tactic we ought to use with kids today: food or cigarettes &#8211; your choice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across an interesting calculator today. This calculator (http:\/\/www.healthstatus.com\/cgi-bin\/calc\/calculator.cgi) lets you figure out how much you spend annually on cigarettes. You put in how many cigarettes you smoke each day, how many are in a pack, and how much they cost. At a 2-pack per day habit, with $6.79 per pack cigarettes, the net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factoid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39P1R-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salexander.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}