The Real Cost of Nicotine: How Addiction Impacts a Household

Big Tobacco has been selling the lie that new factories mean economic growth. What they don’t tell you is the real cost of addiction. A pack-a-day cigarette habit can cost around $3,285 a year in Oklahoma. Even non-smokers are footing the bill. Smoking costs Oklahoma more than $6.8 billion each year in health care and lost productivity. Those big numbers start in small places — in living rooms, kitchens and bank accounts where families are already doing their best to get by. Read the full breakdown.