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WHAT IS THE COST OF SMOKING VS VAPING?

How do the costs of vaping and smoking compare?

Have you quit smoking or are you planning to? Smoking is hazardous to your health and so it is incredibly important to quit for that reason. But there are other benefits to leaving cigarettes behind. Your won't smell like an ashtray, you can rid yourself of yellow fingers and you will save a lot of money.

Exactly how much of your hard-earned cash will you save by vaping instead of smoking?

What is the impact of the Vaping Products Duty?

You have probably heard about the Vaping Products Duty (VPD), a tax that will be applied to e-liquids and products that contain e-liquids from 1 October 2026.

The tax will seriously increase the cost of vaping, adding £2.20 + Vat (£2.64) to each 10ml of e-liquid. Vaping devices and accessories will not be subject to any new taxation. To maintain the difference between the cost of vaping and smoking, the government will apply additional duty of £2.64 to each packet of 20 cigarettes.

When comparing the costs of smoking and vaping below, we have used post-VPD prices.

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What is the cost of smoking?

There's only one way to describe the cost of smoking - horrendous! Following the application of the VPD, a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost you a minimum of £17.39. Premium brands will set you back around £21.00. All of which means you will be on a fastrack to poverty! Check out the examples of annual smoking costs below.

Annual Smoking Costs

10 Premium Cigs Per Day

Smoke 10 premium brand ciggies per day and your annual cost will be approximately:

£3,832

20 Budget Cigs Per Day

If you choose a budget brand and smoke 20 cigarettes per day, you will spend around:

£6,347

20 Premium Cigs Per Day

Smoke 20 premium brand ciggies each day and your annual cost will be roughly:

£7,665

What is the cost of vaping?

Have you recovered from the shock? Smoking costs are disturbing but happily, vaping is much cheaper, even after the new duty has been applied.

It is harder to assess the potential costs of vaping due to the number of variables involved. Your expenditure will depend on the device you have chosen, the resistance of your coil, the e-liquid brand you favour and how intensively you vape.

However, below you will see three examples of vaping scenarios and the resulting annual spends.

Annual Vaping Costs

Aspire Pixo + Budget E-Liquid

Presuming the purchase of one Aspire Pixo vape kit, the consumption of 150 bottles of 88vape e-liquid and an investment in 20 replacement refillable pods, the cost of vaping would be around:

£650

Endura Apex + Premium Juice

Presuming the purcahse of one Innokin Endura Apex kit, the consumption of 150 bottles of Vampire Vape e-liquid and an investment in 30 replacement coils, the cost of vaping would be roughly:

£990

Dojo Blast + Replacement Pods

Presuming the purchase of one Dojo Blast "big puff" vape kit with pod and refill, together with 149 replacement pod + refill sets for the device, the cost of vaping would then be somewhere in the region of:

£750

Conclusion

Yes vaping is becoming more expensive but it is easy to see that vaping will remain far cheaper than smoking. Indeed vaping reprents amazing value considering the benefits it provides. In short, you could save as much as £7,015 each year. Now that has to be something worth thinking about!

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