What Does Smoking Cost Our Whole Household?
Key takeaways
Choose how many people smoke in your household, enter the price of a pack and how many cigarettes each person smokes a day. The calculator shows the household cost per month and year, and over the number of years you pick, with a row for each person. It uses only your numbers.
When two or three people in a home smoke, the cost is easy to miss because each person only sees their own packs. This calculator puts them side by side.
How it works
Pick the number of people who smoke, give each a daily cigarette count, and enter the price of one pack. Each person’s yearly cost is cigarettes per day, divided by the pack size, times the pack price, times 365. The household total is the sum.
Reading the result
The table shows each person’s cost for a year and for the years you chose. Seeing the yearly figure in one place is often what starts the conversation about quitting together, which many people find easier. Our guide for living with someone who smokes covers how to talk about it.
Related tools
For one person, use the cost of smoking calculator. To see what quitting would keep in your pocket, use the savings calculator, and check typical prices by province. Free help is listed on the province-by-province quit help page.
What smoking costs your household
- Household per month
- Household per year
- Over the years
| Person | Per year | Over the years |
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Plain arithmetic from your own numbers. It leaves out inflation, price changes and the cost of health care.
Figures are estimates for planning. Actual prices and taxes vary by seller and date. Read the full disclaimer.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the prices come from?
You enter the pack price yourself, so the result matches what you really pay. For typical prices in your province, see the province price table.
Does it include inflation or health costs?
No. It multiplies your daily cigarettes by the pack price. Prices usually rise, so the real long-term cost is likely higher than shown.
Is anything I enter stored?
No. The numbers stay in your browser and are not sent anywhere.
Sources
- Health Canada: quit smoking — Health Canada. Accessed October 27, 2026.
- Health Canada: provincial and territorial quit services — Health Canada. Accessed October 27, 2026.