What Smoking Costs Floridians

The typical Florida smoker will spend an average of $1.45 million over the course of a lifetime to feed their habit and pay for its potential consequences.

That’s according to a new study released by the folks at WalletHub. Researchers there wanted to find out just how much smokers across the country could figure on paying out. To arrive at its numbers, WalletHub looked at such factors as out-of-pocket costs, health-care costs, income loss and other related metrics. The report covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The most costly states for smokers are:

• New York - $2.45 million
• Massachusetts - $2.26 million
• Alaska - $2.24 million
• Hawaii - $2.18 million
• Connecticut - $2.13 million

The cheapest places for smokers are:

• Louisiana - $1.232 million
• Kentucky - $1.238 million
• Missouri - $1.254 million
• West Virginia, $1.255 million
• North Carolina - $1.26 million

In Florida, smokers spend an average of $103,276 on out-of-pocket costs, WalletHub found. Income loss is estimated at nearly $200,000. Those numbers combined with other metrics to produce the $1.45 million figure and the 21st-place ranking.

To check out the full report, issued in time for Tobacco-Free Awareness Week, visit WalletHub online. Smoking is estimated to cost Americans, overall, about $320 billion a year.

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