Wouldn’t it be great to take a vacation instead of needin to take a dental vacation? Most people don’t understand the huge negative impact that smoking has on your teeth. It can cause periodontal disease and oral cancer to name a couple. Below is an interesting article written by Christopher Pascal on the costs associated with smoking.
Smoking has some very high costs. Before getting on with the discussion of money, the health effects can be disastrous between lung diseases, such as cancer and emphysema, and killed cells, bringing smokers to the end of their lives faster.
Now, when it comes to not smoking, people can not only live longer, but they can do so with a higher quality of life by stacking up money into investments or enjoying higher end items today, such as fine restaurants, better vacations, and giving better gifts to loved ones.
How much Does Smoking Cost?
Being a smoker for 50 years will conservatively cost about $140,000 for those who smoke one pack a day. On top of that, the value of cars and private residences can decrease as a result of smoking while the insurance rates on them increase. When these extra expenses are added to health and dental costs, the cost of smoking can exceed $250,000 not to mention money that could be lost if one was forced into early retirement due to a smoking-related illness.
Smoke, or Retire in Style?
For all of the wealthy smokers, there are many more people who have slowly impoverished themselves by way of cigarettes.
If a smoker was to invest the $1,500 it costs (conservatively) to smoke one pack a day each year into safer investments, such as savings bonds that only offered annual returns of 2.6% from the age of 20-60, he’d not only be without the damage that everything tobacco is laced with in cigarettes, but his return when he retired would be over $106,000.
Read more at Suite101: Get Rich Not Smoking: A Lifetime of Smoking Will Seriously Impede One’s Retirement and Fun http://retirementplanning.suite101.com/article.cfm/get_rich_not_smoking#ixzz0gBiy38Fa
Stop smioking now so you don’t need to look into dental tourism. Go for just the fun of it if you want to visit Mexico, Thailand or Greece not because you need dentistry done!
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