DID
YOU KNOW? - SOME LESSER KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
The following facts have been
compiled by a gentleman who has had the misfortune of suffering a stroke,
He hope it will, perhaps, give others food for thought regarding smoking:-
| I smoked
30 cigarettes a day. |
| The cost
of each cigarette in 1999 was 16p. |
| The cost
of a day's cigarettes was, therefore, £4.80. |
| The cost
of a week's cigarettes was £33.60. |
| The last
year was a leap year (366 days); 366 x 30 cigarettes =
10,980.
10,980 cigarettes I smoked in one year.
|
| 10,980 at
a cost of 16p. each = £1,756.80! The cost of one year's cigarettes. |
| I had
been smoking for 35 years. |
| The first
10 years I smoked around 20 a day = approximately 73,000 cigarettes |
| The next
25 years I smoked 30 a day = approximately 273,750 cigarettes. |
| This
means I would have smoked around 346,750 cigarettes in my life. |
| It takes
around 7 minutes to smoke one cigarette. |
| This
means I smoked for the equivalent of 3 1/2 hours each day. |
| Over 35
years I have spent approximately 1,685 days or 240 weeks or 4 years
and 7 months smoking! Plus the time looking for a light. |
| The
length of a cigarette is approximately 4" x 346,750 = 1,387,000
inches |
| Placed
end to end this would stretch for almost 22 miles. |
| If the
cigarettes were purchased in packs of 20, I would have bought a
total of 17,337 packs. |
| Laid flat
on top of each other the packets would reach over 1800 feet high. |
| Laid end
to end these packets would be almost 2 miles long. |
| When I
first started smoking a packet of 20 cost around 4 shillings or 20p. |
| My habit
then cost £1.40 per week or £73 per year. |
| Had I
chosen to invest the money rather than spend it on cigarettes at an
annual interest of 4% per year I could have saved £36,133.80 over
the 35 years. |
| After
years of being weak willed in trying to kick the habit I finally
gave up on the 27th January, 2000. |
| It was
really quite easy - for years I had read the health warnings but
thought I was invincible!!!! |
If you are subscribers to our
monthly ezine (and if not, why not??), you will have seen some humorous bedroom
tips he has sent in, proof that he has been able to maintain his sense
of humour at this very difficult time.
Ian Holt had set up his own website covering
this subject, but unfortunately, this no longer appears to be on line at http://97778419.home.icq.com.
He has very kindly given permission for us to reproduce some of
his material on Hints and Things.
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