Smoking Cost

**WickedKitchen** · 25-01-11, 09:44 PM

When I started smoking Camel cigarettes they were 99 cents on special. I think they were $1.50 normally. At the end they were approaching $7.00 per pack. I smoked the damned things for 15 years at about a pack a day. Let's say the average was $4.00 that would be $21,900. Of which I would have had to make about 30K to pay for them. That's about what I made at my first job out of college. A whole year's pay up in smoke. Huh.

Prolly have snus down to $1.5/day but that's with the pre-pact stuff of which I still have about 80 cans. Read the entire making snus at home thread too. Gonna make an attempt in the spring I think.

**Darwin** · 25-01-11, 09:45 PM

I assume you meant $22,185 but I am skeptical that anyone anywhere can by a new BMW 3 series for that amount. It would be well over twice that in the U.S. You're absolutely right though about the long term costs.

**precious007** · 25-01-11, 09:48 PM

Originally posted by Darwin View Post

I assume you meant $22,185 but I am skeptical that anyone anywhere can by a new BMW 3 series for that amount. It would be well over twice that in the U.S. You're absolutely right though about the long term costs.

hey, yeah not a new one, but just like a brand new one ;-)

Snus for a change is a lot cheaper......... I've consumed 80 cans in 6 months... so far.... dip and snus....

That would be roughly ... $600 .... and I'm trying to cut down to a can every 5 days...

**Veganpunk** · 25-01-11, 10:51 PM

I haven't calculated it up, but I know when I made the switch to snus, my paychecks started getting a lot fatter. (This was before PACT) Today I shopped around to buy a roll of Click. It's about $50.00 no matter where I buy it. Really sucks.

**khalid** · 25-01-11, 11:08 PM

I smoked hand rolling tobacco and was able to buy it tax free in bulk. It costs me more to use snus.

**Jwalker** · 26-01-11, 03:03 AM

It would would be cheaper for me to smoke than use snus actually. ryo tobacco labelled as pipe tobacco which is what I mostly smoked is about 20 bucks a pound which is enough to make probably 600 cigarettes and tubes are three bucks for 200 so at one pack a day that would be 30 bucks a month or so or about 420 dollars. Snus and dip is in a worst case scenario 4-5 dollars a can on average for me and I use about half a can a day on average (It's slightly less but for simplicity) so 15 cans a month at 4 dollars a can is 60 dollars or about 750 a year. It could go up at five dollars a can to 75 dollars a month or almost 1,000 dollars a year. I also spend money on pipe tobacco and cigars so that's another cost I think I average about 1,000 dollars a year which is really high for me. The comparison is stupid though since I can't smoke even half a pack on campus without disciplinary problems since tobacco use is banned.

Edit: I don't feel like smoking cigarettes anyway so it doesn't really matter they could be free and I wouldn't care what the comparison cost was.

**precious007** · 26-01-11, 11:33 AM

Originally posted by Jwalker View Post

It would would be cheaper for me to smoke than use snus actually. ryo tobacco labelled as pipe tobacco which is what I mostly smoked is about 20 bucks a pound which is enough to make probably 600 cigarettes and tubes are three bucks for 200 so at one pack a day that would be 30 bucks a month or so or about 420 dollars. Snus and dip is in a worst case scenario 4-5 dollars a can on average for me and I use about half a can a day on average (It's slightly less but for simplicity) so 15 cans a month at 4 dollars a can is 60 dollars or about 750 a year. It could go up at five dollars a can to 75 dollars a month or almost 1,000 dollars a year. I also spend money on pipe tobacco and cigars so that's another cost I think I average about 1,000 dollars a year which is really high for me. The comparison is stupid though since I can't smoke even half a pack on campus without disciplinary problems since tobacco use is banned.

Edit: I don't feel like smoking cigarettes anyway so it doesn't really matter they could be free and I wouldn't care what the comparison cost was.

yeah but still most smokers are cigarette smokers, and so was I ....

rolling tobacco, pipes, cigars and so on are for the elder

you can't walk out as a 20 year older` with a pipe stuck in your lips, lol

**TommyGunBC** · 26-01-11, 12:33 PM

Wow $200000 wouldn't even buy a run down house in my area , wow the rest of the world is sure cheaper than North America

**BradenL** · 26-01-11, 02:39 PM

In the US 200k would not really get you that far in the housing market, although since it crashed 2008 you could probably buy something WAY below market value if you really wanted it. My brother worked in real estate for a time and right now you could actually purchase a small/semi-crappy house for 200k...not that I would want to though haha

**precious007** · 26-01-11, 03:56 PM

Originally posted by TommyGunBC View Post

Wow $200000 wouldn't even buy a run down house in my area , wow the rest of the world is sure cheaper than North America

lol, I love it how some people like to inflate the prices without even checking/doing a research before......

Dude, quite a luxurious house in Vancouver, I'm talking 3 bedrooms, 814 sq .... build in 1990 is $299,000 ...

what are you talking about?

In the US 200k would not really get you that far in the housing market, although since it crashed 2008 you could probably buy something WAY below market value if you really wanted it. My brother worked in real estate for a time and right now you could actually purchase a small/semi-crappy house for 200k...not that I would want to though haha

Are you nuts?

Here's one in Orlando, 3 Bedrooms, 1146 sq, garage .......

just saying....

there's dozens of other examples....

I like this one http://www.property4peanuts.com/prop...n-usa-233.html

It says area Detroit? ... where is that?! I thought Detroit is in canada not in US..

**internope** · 26-01-11, 04:48 PM

Originally posted by precious007 View Post

lol, I love it how some people like to inflate the prices without even checking/doing a research before......

Dude, quite a luxurious house in Vancouver, I'm talking 3 bedrooms, 814 sq .... build in 1990 is $299,000 ...

what are you talking about?

Are you nuts?

Here's one in Orlando, 3 Bedrooms, 1146 sq, garage .......

just saying....

there's dozens of other examples....

I like this one http://www.property4peanuts.com/prop...n-usa-233.html

It says area Detroit? ... where is that?! I thought Detroit is in canada not in US..

The example in Vancouver is a condominium, not a house, and comes with $269 CDN/month condo fees. The $299K + 269/month buys you an apartment, but Vancouver is one of the nicest cities in North America.

In the USA, if you want a very basic 2 or 3 bedroom home near a metropolitan area with a decent quality of life and where there are some job prospects left (not Detroit or Orlando!) you are looking at spending around $200k.

**WickedKitchen** · 26-01-11, 06:20 PM

Interlope is right. 200k is pretty cheap for a house near a city. For that price you'll get something that's termed a "handyman special". I bought one of those once. Good thing I was handy 'cos we made a bundle off of it in the end but the first two years there were terrible.

You could buy a house in Mastic, Long Island for like 10K. Not kidding. You certainly wouldn't want to live there. I'd bet it's worse than Detroit. There are places like that everywhere. At the end of the day it's all relative. You get what you pay for.

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