Sunday, May 30, 2010
I'll be outside, if you need me............
A little quick math has revealed to me that I have smoked about 230,000 cigarettes in my life. If I only count the "smoke-able" portion of the cancer-stick, that equates to a cigarette about 7.25 miles long........inhaled directly and deeply into my lungs. Is it possible that this may one day kill me? Sure. But my second-hand smoke isn't going to kill you here tonight in the bar, so shut the fuck up and let me enjoy my beer. Here, let me buy you a few shots..........have a nice drive home.
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*So 20 cigarettes in a pack equals 11,500 packs times a conservative $5 per pack comes to $57,000.
ReplyDelete*Time wasted. Let’s see 230,000 cigarettes * 5 minutes per cigarette (conservative) = 1,150,000 minutes. Divided by 60 min/hour = 19,167 hours. Divided by 24 hours/day = 799 days. If your time is worth $20 per hour that’s an opportunity loss of $160 per day times the 799 equaling another loss of $127,840
*Now let’s talk additional health care costs as you get older. Treating lung cancer – Conservative $1,000,000.
*You will also probably miss a few years of work so at a conservative $58,400 let’s say 5 productive years will be lost so another $292,000.
Total:
$57,000 Cigarette cost + $127,000 Opportunity costs + 1,000,000 Treat Lung Cancer + $292,000 Lost wages for a total of
$1,476,000 Total Cigarette Financial Loss