The cost of vaping daily: $12 a day is $600,000 over 30 years
Vapes hide in plain sight: cheap per puff, sold everywhere, easy to underestimate. The second number makes the habit visible.
Disposables run about $12 a day for a regular user. That is $4,380 a year. Invested instead, on real market data: $89,000 in 10 years, $600,000 in 30. For flavored air.
Why vaping math stings more than smoking math
Cigarettes carry sin taxes and social friction that slow spending. Vapes are cheap per puff, sold everywhere, and easy to underestimate, which is how $12 a day hides in plain sight. $365 a month dollar-cost-averaged across the actual S&P 500 closes, 1995 to 2025, is the figure above. Price appreciation only, so the truth runs higher.
The redirect play
Quitting redirects $4,380 a year from day one. Even stepping down to half redirects $2,190, which is $300,000 over 30 years. Put the number somewhere you see it daily. (See: The cost of smoking, daily.)
How this helps you in CostMe
Type $12 daily into CostMe to price your habit forward, then vault the redirect.
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