| Tobacco is costing billions of dollars in lost | | | | lost from work. Perhaps now is time to lie down |
| productivity and healthcare expenditures annually. | | | | your smoking gun and save yourself from |
| So, just how much money are we talking here? | | | | potential bankruptcy. |
| According to the CDC, cigarette smoking is | | | | I, just like many of you, have told myself |
| costing Americans over $193 billion dollars a year. | | | | countless times making hollow promises to quit |
| More than $97 billion dollars of annual tobacco | | | | smoking. I mean, really. It's simply a matter of not |
| healthcare expenditures is due to lost productivity | | | | buying them and continuing on with life, right? If |
| from Americans forced to miss work due to | | | | only it were that simple. Years of weaving this |
| tobacco related illnesses. Another $96 billion is | | | | nasty little habit into the "fabric of our lives" has |
| needed to cover the current healthcare costs of | | | | done nothing but leave our cotton smelly and |
| those illnesses. | | | | riddled with poverty stricken holes. It's only when |
| In this time of economic distress, tobacco | | | | we try to quit do we realize just how big of a |
| healthcare expenditures are hitting hard on our | | | | role smoking played in our lives. Standing around |
| wallets and taking their toll on small businesses. | | | | becomes nothing short of awkward moment |
| Small businesses are left to fend on a razor's | | | | without something to settle the nerves and keep |
| edge where even the slightest shift in weekly | | | | us occupied. |
| revenue could topple them into total collapse. | | | | There are nicotine patches and gums but, they |
| Having a valued employee forced out of | | | | just don't satisfy that habitual routine of smoking |
| commission could seriously jeopardize its stability | | | | when the situation arises. If only there were an |
| and what about the wallets of the average | | | | alternative... Well, I was fortunate enough to come |
| citizen? This economic disaster has given the | | | | across a product that filled that void and helped |
| phrase, "living paycheck to paycheck" a whole | | | | me quit, electronic cigarettes. It had all the |
| new meaning. | | | | features I wanted out of a quit-smoke aid and so |
| Many of you have been in a similar situation | | | | much more. The Green Smoke products are a |
| where a necessary hospital visit has left you and | | | | hallmark of the electronic cigarette genre and |
| your family in debt for months, even years. We | | | | made quitting a reachable goal, rather than |
| can little afford the medical bills, let alone the time | | | | something impossible. |