The Cost of Smoking

At Quit Smoking in 60 Minutes I ask my clients when they come in for quit smoking what it costs them. This is not just from the health view but how much money it actually costs to smoke cigarettes. Most people cannot tell me. Why is this? I think it is for two reasons;
1. The cost to smoke is not seen in a lump sum. Payment is packet by packet and so the total cost is not seen.
2. People don’t want to acknowledge the cost.
The actual cost of cigarettes makes more impact in first world countries as taxation has made […]

Cigarettes: Plain or Branded Packaging

At the moment in Australia there is a big push to sell cigarettes in plain packaging in the hope that this will get people to stop smoking. I believe that this assumption at best is wrong. People will smoke no matter what package the cigarettes come in. Their aim is to smoke cigarettes and I believe that plain packaging will have no effect. It is a bit like the money for cigarettes, you will always find the money to but them. In Africa cigarettes are sold singly and there is no packaging involved, it has no effect on stopping people […]