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MamaRAMa
I smoked this particular brand of cigarette for 47 years. I was in college when I first started smoking and a pack of cigarettes back then was around 27 cents. I wish I had every hard earned cent that I spent on nicotine through the years.
Just some rough numbers:
Taking your 27 cents a pack x 1.5 per day x 365 days a year gives you a cost of $147.82 that you spent in 1975 (roughly when you started smoking).
There is a math/investment rule that states if you invest your money properly you can double it every 7 years. Since you smoked for 47 years and stopped 2 years ago, that's a total of 49 years ago you started spending money on cigarettes.
Had you waited just one year to start smoking and invested that $147.82 at a good return you could have doubled it to $295.64 in 7 years. And then to $591.28 in 7 more years and so on. Today, that money would be worth $18,920
You could have taken that $18,920 and traveled to this year's Super Bowl, stayed in a hotel and had some pretty good seats at Sofi!
AND you could have taken pictures and told us all about your wonderful adventure so the rest of us could live vicariously through your experiences!
So, I am kind of ticked off you didn't wait a year.
In fact, I feel ripped off!
