Tuesday, March 13, 2007
INMED offers courses in Medical Missions
I get snailmail brochures from INMED in Kansas City. The offer conferences, on line courses, newsletters on international medical missions. Their online course is $39.95 for 15 CME hours. I might have to try it out before going back to Mexico. Looks like an interesting website, check it out.
Friday, March 09, 2007
The dollar cost of smoking
Here's an interesting one from Dave Ramsey, Christian financial counselor. How much does smoking set a person back?
He says a pack of cigarrettes is about $4.65. (Can't confirm that from my own experience.) At one pack a day, thirty days a month, that comes to $139.50/month. If instead of burning it up and breathing it, you put that in a 12% mutual fund, how much would that come to over a lifetime?
For a 16 year old, who puts that money into a Roth IRA until age 76, it comes to a rather staggering 18 MILLION. (And that does not include the lower cost of insurance, doc bills, etc.)
How about for a 2 pack/day smoker, stopping at age 36? 3.2 million bucks at age 76. Now I have to go talk to my nephew!
He says a pack of cigarrettes is about $4.65. (Can't confirm that from my own experience.) At one pack a day, thirty days a month, that comes to $139.50/month. If instead of burning it up and breathing it, you put that in a 12% mutual fund, how much would that come to over a lifetime?
For a 16 year old, who puts that money into a Roth IRA until age 76, it comes to a rather staggering 18 MILLION. (And that does not include the lower cost of insurance, doc bills, etc.)
How about for a 2 pack/day smoker, stopping at age 36? 3.2 million bucks at age 76. Now I have to go talk to my nephew!
