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So, your total e-cigarette cost is $63 monthly. If you smoked a pack of cigarettes each day in the same time period, you would have spent $180 at the current average price of cigarettes. In a year, e-smoking would cost about $516, while cigarettes would cost an average of $2,160. Thatâs a savings of $1,644! The savings continue to mount if you live in one of the 24 United States and territories with an average cigarette tax of more than $1.46 per pack.
The new study was conducted from 1995 to 1999. The average cost of a pack of 20 cigarettes was $2.92 in 1999, the study said, but it gave no indication of how much of that amount went for taxes. The agency said it analyzed expenses, both personal and for the health care industry, and used national medical surveys to calculate the costs to the nation.