Alaska has one of the highest smoking costs in the nation, according to a report from personal-finance company WalletHub.
The company calculated the potential monetary losses—including the lifetime and annual costs of a pack of cigarettes per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs—brought on by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.
Smoking impacts your health and your pocketbook. Tobacco use is responsible for nearly half a million deaths in the United States each year and remains the leading cause of lung cancer, according to the American Lung Association.
Among the findings:
The estimated lifetime cost of smoking is nearly $4.3 million per smoker.
The average out-of-pocket cost per smoker is $179,745 over a lifetime.
Each smoker will incur an average of $232,498 in smoking-related health care costs over a lifetime.
