We had a stressful month due to some project not going as expected. Although the problem is not on our side and is being worked on, the tech person in charge of the project had some very stressful time lately.
He is a smoker but I did not know how much he smoked. It turned out that last month, he smoked almost 1/3 of his whole month's salary! Wow!
I told him outright that he should be an idiot to do that. He is barely 30, very overweight, very sedentary and a heavy smoker. Now, I am obese too but at least I made it to 50 and have never smoked.
He said, he realized that too and that he would start tracking his smoking. About time!
wow - that is a lot of smoking! Aside from the general grossness of it, I think I'd be too frugal to spend money on smoking. When I hear people complaining they can't afford this or that, while they are smoking, I just want to say then stop spending all that money every month on cigarettes - there's your car payment right there!
ReplyDeleteHe will be disabled and unable to breathe on his own if he does not stop smoking. of course, he may die first. J and bf smoke almost $200 of his $1000 paycheck each month and cannot afford to move from the house their friend shares rent free with them. Most smokers agree to stop soon and never do. I, too, am overweight but have never smoked and am 70.
ReplyDeleteSpending that much on a filthy unhealthy habit is just insane to me. The average cost of a pack here is $6.50. If my neighbors smoke a pack a day (I'm sure they do, easy) then that is almost $400 a month they are spending on them...while she drives this old piece of crap over 100 miles per day to work. My dad used to smoke over a pack a day. I can't believe he never got lung cancer. My MIL smoked (probably still does) and had to have half of one of her lungs removed a few years ago. I'm so glad it's not something DH and I ever started.
DeleteAddiction is a horrible thing.
DeleteI'm the worst kind of smoker - an ex-smoker! I quit over 30 years ago (and wasn't as heavy a smoker as your colleague) because I was starting to feel really gross and it was getting too expensive (when I quit, cigarettes were $5.85 for a pack of 20 - the kind I smoked, at least). I about fell over when I was in a bookstore in Whitehorse (it's Whitehorse, I didn't ask why a bookstore was selling smokes!) just before I moved and found out that cigarettes were $12.99-$14.99 a pack now!! Outrageous. I appreciate the addiction, but there is not a single reason to smoke anymore. Not one. But you can't make people quit, unfortunately. It took me at least 7 tries before I was able to do it completely.
ReplyDeleteAt those prices, it is insane to smoke. The company's driveway needed some repairs and there are guys out there fixing it. I saw them smoking! These guys are probably getting only minimum wage from the contractor and I doubt that they are full-time employed.
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