When you are thinking about the costs of smoking, you need to look at a large number of different things. It is not only the cost of a pack of cigarettes or the cost of a carton, but the effects it is having on your life in all aspects as well. It is a cost on every person who is close to you as well as those who are not as close. You face an effect on your work as well as challenges with everyday parts of life. The costs of smoking run a lot deeper than the effect you feel on your wallet.
Consider if because of your smoking you need to go and see the doctor more in order to get the treatments you need for the damage you have caused. This puts a strain on the health insurance you are getting through work. Depending on the size of the company as well as the number of people who are using the insurance, you may be causing premiums to go up. This is because you are causing the insurance company to pay a lot more than is necessary because of your addiction.
Then there are the costs incurred by the people who have to suffer and help you. They are giving up part of their lives and time in order to help you to get better as opposed to doing something that was more of a benefit to them. They feel as though they need to help you and at a sacrifice to themselves in order to make life better for you and to help you beat the addiction.
Then you are costing yourself valuable time by shortening your life. Consider how much life you could have if you had never started smoking or would quit doing it altogether. It depends on how much you want to live and fight to be alive.