Smoking costs us more than $600 billion per year, and the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on The Real Cost of Smoking by State.
The site calculated the potential monetary losses brought on by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke, including the lifetime and annual costs of a pack of cigarettes per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs.
The Financial Cost of Smoking in North Carolina:
- Overall rank for North Carolina: 47th
- Out-of-Pocket Cost per Smoker – $137,006 (Rank: 47th)
- Financial-Opportunity Cost per Smoker – $2,322,526 (Rank: 47th)
- Health-Care Cost per Smoker – $150,944 (Rank: 43rd)
- Income Loss per Smoker – $571,847 (Rank: 40th)
- Other Costs per Smoker – $12,582 (Rank: 20th)
- Total Cost Over Lifetime per Smoker: $3,194,906
- Total Cost per Year per Smoker: $66,561
To view the full report, you can visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/the-
