SmokeLoss - The honest smoking cost calculator

My father smoked. Both my uncles did. Growing up, tobacco was just background noise — in the car, on his clothes, everywhere. Nobody calculated what it cost. Years later, through my work in medical devices, I spent a lot of time around pulmonology departments. That's where I saw where the background noise ends up: people in their 40s and 50s with lung cancer. For most lung cancers there is still, today, no good treatment. The statistics have barely moved. Health warnings have been running for fifty years — graphic images on packs, statistics, public campaigns. The people who were going to quit because of a warning have already quit. So I tried a different angle: not "this will kill you" but "this is costing you a house." Maybe that lands differently for some people. Maybe it doesn't. But the health-only approach has had its chance.

Enter when you started and how much you smoke. SmokeLoss uses 80 years of real US cigarette prices and actual S&P 500 returns to show what your habit truly cost — and what that money would be worth today. Includes cancer risk data from peer-reviewed studies and shareable report cards. Everything runs in your browser. No sign-up, no data collected, free.

Tech: React (CDN, no build step), static HTML, Vercel. Solo project