...if you added a column for how many years have you smoked? and did the math on cigs per day it would be interesting. Just that, interesting. I was down to about 14 analogs a day for the last couple of years but the AVG of a pack a day for 58 years would produce a number.
It would be interesting, but likely it would also be wildly inaccurate, or at least very cumbersome to compile. Given how many price and tax increases there have been in the last five years alone, calculating a remotely accurate value for over half a century would be maddening, at the least.
Oh.... the last four entries on the list, when I looked, seemed to be duplicates. 1777 - 1780 wvducklady
I also noticed that someone put their pack of cigarettes at $1,000.00, which super-inflates the estimated value. I'm guessing this was a simple mistake of a missing decimal for in entry of $10, but if these numbers were to be used for any serious purpose, that sort of mistake would decrease its credibility and validity. (I don't imagine that such an informal tool would be included in actual research, but it weakens even casual arguments in favor of
vaping vs. tobacco by being blatantly incorrect.)
(I apologize for being too lazy to read through the entire 14 pages to see if the last bit has been addressed already. 14 pages of "I added my info" is just a bit much