吸烟成本知多少：戒了你能每年买辆车

吸烟不仅伤害人的身体，也伤害人的钱包。科学早已证明，尼古丁对人类的身体健康有害，不过一项最新分析表明，吸烟也是一项非常烧钱的活动。

个人理财网站WalletHub于周三发表的一篇分析文章显示，康涅狄格州是美国人均吸烟成本最高的州，该州烟民每年的人均吸烟成本高达5.6万美元。在他们的一生之中，康州烟民在这项癖好上的支出将超过280万美元。

WalletHub的文章研究了美国烟民的年均吸烟成本和终身吸烟成本，并将结果按州排列，相关成本中包括了烟草价格、税收成本等以及吸烟引发的相关疾病导致的医疗支出和收入损失等变量。

根据美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）统计，吸烟每年给美国社会带来的损失达3000亿美元以上。

WalletHub的研究还引用了与吸烟有关的死亡数据。根据来自美国外科医生总会（U.S. Surgeon General）的数据，自1964年以来，与吸烟有关的疾病已经夺去了2000多万美国人的生命，其中有250万人是死于二手烟影响的非吸烟者。吸烟是导致肺癌的主要元凶，吸烟还会导致慢性支气管炎和肺气肿等健康问题。

尽管目前尚无定论，但目前的研究倾向于认为电子烟也是对人体有害的。虽然Juul等知名电子烟生产商声称电子烟比传统烟草更安全，但一些研究表明，人体在吸食电子烟后，体内也会产生一些有毒化学物质，与普通吸烟者并无本质区别，即使他们所使用的电子烟并不含有尼古丁。为了保持电子烟的香味，很多厂商都在电子烟烟油中添加了丙二醇和甘油等化学物质，由此产生的丰富口味也是令很多烟民选择电子烟的一个重要原因。由于电子烟在青少年中非常流行，美国食品与药品管理局（FDA）正在考虑禁止在线销售电子烟。

不过美国在烟草消费方面也是有好消息的。2018年，美国成年人的吸烟率跌至历史新低。（财富中文网）

译者：朴成奎

Smoking kills people, but the habit gets their wallets first. While research has long proven a nicotine addiction causes harm to one’s health, new analysis proves it causes serious damage to financial health too.

Smokers in Connecticut, the state that ranks highest in terms of the financial cost of cigarette smoking, are spending nearly $56,000 annually on their habit, according to new analysis published Wednesday by personal finance website WalletHub. Over their lifetimes, smokers in Connecticut are spending more than $2.8 million.

WalletHub’s analysis looks at the cost of smoking over both a year and a lifetime of tobacco use. The totals are broken down by state, which accounts for variables such as tobacco prices and taxes, as well as healthcare costs and income loss due to related health issues.

Looking at the United States as a whole, smoking costs the country over $300 billion annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The WalletHub study also points to the mortality figures associated with smoking. The U.S. Surgeon General reports that since 1964, smoking-related illnesses have claimed the lives of more than 20 million Americans, and 2.5 million of those were non-smokers who suffered the effects of secondhand smoke. Smoking is a leading cause of lung cancer, and smoking also causes health issues such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

This may also be true for e-cigarettes, though the jury is still out. While e-cig producers such as Juul say vaping is safer than traditional smoking, some studies have shown that people who smoke e-cigs have the same toxic chemicals in their bodies as regular cigarette smokers, even when the e-cigs don’t contain nicotine. Chemicals such aspropylene glycol and glycerin are used in e-cigs to preserve the flavor, the very thing that seems to motivate people to opt for vaping over cigarette smoking. Vaping has become so popular with teens, the FDA is considering a ban on online e-cigarette sales.

There is at least some good news on the tobacco front, though. Smoking among adults in the U.S. fell to an all-time low in 2018.