Study: Cigarettes Cost Society $40 a Pack
Cigarettes may cost smokers more [than] they believe. A study by a team of health economists finds the combined price paid by their families and society is about $40 per pack of cigarettes.
great. now let’s analyze how much “society” pays for every bullet fired into children in iraq and elsewhere, or what each person in society pays for snake-in-the-grass bureaucrats.
people love large, “surprising” numbers. they may be surprised at the low real value of such announcements.