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I remember reading a fact when I was in my teens. Apparently the average lifetime cost of cigarettes for a 20-a-day smoker is £63,000.
As a recently reformed smoker I'd put it at WAAAAAAAAY higher than that. A quick back-of-a-fag-packet* calculation says that in the 8 months since I packed in smoking, I've saved over a grand and a half. I have spent it all on shiny bike-related things insteadIts basically paid for this....
I remember a while back a friend motivating reward for giving up fags was, that with money he saved, at the end of the week he could afford to buy a CD. Now you could buy a new album every day. Over a lifetime you could probably buy a house.
Not a pipe but I do smoke a couple of cigars a week. An article here that tries to explain what the statistics actually mean.
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2014/08/01/cigar-warnings-go-up-in-smoke/
Someone should research into gene and cancer trigger points.
Maybe someone should research the link between smoking and cancer eh?
Someone should research into gene and cancer trigger points.Maybe someone should research the link between smoking and cancer eh?
As everyone knows there's been loads, and yes it can. But none it seems that answers the op's question. Is smoking my pipe once or twice a week bad for my health ?
I'm guessing the answers is, probably but only by a little bit.
Thank you, taxi25. That's exactly what I was asking, and the article you posted actually tries to answer the question.
[i]pretty old fashioned habit[/i]
Isn't that why people do it? Like old style razors, woodpiles and logburners, that sort of thing.. is there some lacking in "manliness" trying to be regained by going back to what our grandfathers did?
I like a pipe. But then, methamphetamine is rather moreish.
is there some lacking in "manliness" trying to be regained by going back to what our grandfathers did?
I don't know about yours but I'm pretty sure mine didn't use shower gel or moisturiser.
Exactly
Maybe someone should research the link between smoking and cancer eh?
Now I want someone to research the link between smoking and home ownership.
I sometimes smoke an imaginary pipe after a clever or witty quipp,
im smoking one righhhht......now
I have spent it all on shiny bike-related things instead
£9 for 20 @20/day
£9*365 = £3285/year
If you imagine keeping a bike for three years, that means you could always be riding around on effectively the most expensive MTB you could buy off the peg. And be riding considerably faster than you do now.
That's what a 20 a day habit is worth.