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Smoking Hurts Wealth As Well As Health, Study Suggests

A new study suggests that typical non-smokers` net worth is roughly 50 percent higher than that of light smokers and about twice the level of that of heavy smokers. And that wealth gap grows by about $410, or 4 percent, each year that a person continues to smoke, said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University`s Center for Human Resource Research.