Tilly...of course they do ! But I watched both of my parents's health steadily decline due to smoking, and it had a powerful effect on me.
At the time I quit in 1978, I was spending about £16 a month on cigarettes.
I immediately went out and bought my first Hi-Fi, on tick, with the monthly payments being another £16 a month, knowing that if i didn't succeed in quitting, I would be paying £32 a month, which I could ill afford.
This worked for me. If I was still smoking now, I estimate that I would be spending at least £20 a day. I couldn't possibly afford such a huge sum, but by then, I would be addicted, so I would find the money from somewhere.
I didn't intend for my posts to be nagging at all, but thought some hard acts might help those few smokers left to try again to quit.