On Healthy Living

I live in Florida and have noticed the prices of cigarettes. They caught my attention because I’ve had a number of people complain to me that living in New York it was costing them sometimes over $8 for one pack of cigarettes, compared to the $3.50 or less in FL.

I then started paying more attention and noticed that in this state there are some cigarettes, namely, the cheap brands that can be purchase for as low as $2 a pack and of course there are lots of buy one get one free deals. A carton of the cheap brands can anywhere from $12-$25 and $19-$30 for the name brands.

Getting more into my research I then looked at non-smoking products and realized that if someone wanted to quit smoking by using these products but didn’t have a lot of money they would probably just go back to smoking.

The smoking cessation products generally cost around $30-$60 dollars per package. The patches most buy are the 14-day pack but to be effective you need to use it for 8 or 9 weeks. By that time you will have gone through a couple hundred dollars. Not everyone has the strength to go cold turkey and depending on where you live it seems the pricing on non-smoking products like the healthy/diet food products are for the people who can afford it. And to those who can’t, well they get an “oh well”.

Marsha James wrote this on April 6th, 2006 and filed it under Healthy Living |