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The high cost of smoking

Published January 5, 2009, 3:29 pm, Nanaimo Daily News

Calvin Wood gave in to peer pressure at age 18 and lit up a cigarette. Now 42, Wood smokes a pack a day (in monetary terms, about $3,600 worth a year) and wants to kick the habit.

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