The Surgeon General's Report for Kids about Smoking

Up in Smoke!

The typical smoker spends about $700 a year on cigarettes. Think of what you could do with all that dough:

Play 2,800 video-arcade games.

Have the world's greatest slumber party: Take your 40 best friends to the movies, then order 19 pizzas (with everything, of course!) to munch on while reading your 162 new comic books.
 

Talk on the phone to your friend in another state for 126 hours and 22 minutes.

Make a donation to your favorite charity. That way you could really help others!

Buy 1,400 seedlings to plant three acres of oak, hickory, walnut, or ash trees.

It's boring, we know, but if you put $700 every year in a bank account earning 5 percent interest, you'd have $25,003.47 after 20 years. With a sum like that you could really have some fun!

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This page last reviewed April 03, 2003

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