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The Study:
“The wealth effects of smoking,” Tobacco Control, Dec. 2004

The Findings: One night during a conference, Ohio State
University social scientist Jay Zagorsky and his fellow researchers were
smoking, eating, and drinking beer: a moment ripe for inquiry. What effect, they
wondered, might those very cigarettes be having on their wallets? Zagorsky
crunched data culled from the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth, which tracked financial information and other lifestyle
characteristics of 10,000 Americans over 15 years. Holding demographic factors
constant, Zagorsky calculated that heavy smokers in the sample had a net worth
of $8,400 less than nonsmokers—an amount roughly equal to how much the smokers
had spent on their habit.

Why Bother? “When my mother reads this paper, it seems
brilliantly obvious,” Zagorsky says. “Not so to me.” He suggests that
smoking-cessation programs could use the data to raise awareness that smoking
not only taxes health but hard-earned savings for critical things like
retirement, emergencies and, of course, medical bills