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Interview: Surgeon, Natalia Mixalovna Monogova - Letter: Teacher, Brad Henderson

If you used that money for something else...

Price of cigarette is very large in our country Russia. Adult people usually smoke not expensive packs. But young people, including our students , smoke very expensive packs. It is very cool in opinion of their friends.

Now our group of students in condition of Internet anti smoking project with our American friends students. We are making different anonymous surveys with students of our school.
One survey showed that most of constant smoking students buy brand of cigarettes with price about 80 cents - 1 dollar (in American money). This pack enough for one day, because it is also cool to be not greedy and share your pack with friends.

After survey we counted cost for the month. Average sum is 20 dollars per month. This sum is enough for doing following things:
- 6 visits for most expensive theatre in our city
- or 5-7 books of average price
- or English course book with work book and cassettes of Longman publish
- or 20 kilos of apples or oranges
- or 2 months in swimming club

In the U.S. the cost of a pack of cigarettes is a very high price. It currently costs $5.00, because of taxes and the government. The sum of smokers in the U.S. has definitely decreased over the past few years. There are many products that reduce or eliminate the cravings you have for cigarettes, like Anti-Craving Gum.

In the survey that we created we asked you why you started to smoke. The students who took the survey told us that they started because of many reasons like all of my friends were doing it, I wanted to look older that I am, I wanted to impress people, and my family smoked so I wanted to try it.

If you smoke and you smoke a pack a day,that would mean you spend $5.00 a day, think of what you could buy with all of the money that you saved from smoking. That means you would have $150.00 at the end of the month. The following are suggestions of thing that you could buy with that money.

- iPod of iPod mini-$299.00-399.00, that would take 3 months at the most
- Snow Leopards Kittens and a Pair of Snow Leopards-$150.00
-7 tickets to an expensive, fancy movie theater-$140.00
- 15 yoga lessons or 15 people at one lesson- $150.00