Smoking doesn’t just ruin your health. It can also burn a nasty hole through your wallet.

Tobacco use accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the U.S. each year and is the leading cause of lung cancer, according to the American Lung Association.

WalletHub calculated the potential monetary losses — including the lifetime and annual costs of a cigarette pack per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs — brought on by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.

In California, the estimated financial cost of smoking over a lifetime is nearly $2 million. The out-of-pocket cost per smoker is $143,149 over a lifetime.

Each California smoker will incur an average of $194,833 in income loss over a lifetime.

Story Date: February 9, 2020