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We all know that aggressive efforts are now being done to convince people all over the world to stop smoking for good. Part of these efforts includes making the different facts about smoking widely now available through the many different web sites over the Internet as well in many medical facilities. The most popular fact many people know are the long term health risks and diseases that smokers would eventually cause in the long run. But recent findings have found that even as early as consuming their very first pack, smokers are now subject to a variety of different health risks and other shocking truths about the effects of smoking.

One of the recently determined facts about smoking is that cigarettes and other tobacco products such as cigars and pipes contain a variety of different compounds that slowly poison smokers, resulting to the development of these health diseases or simply dying prematurely. Nicotine is just one of these compounds. While it has long been known that nicotine is the compound that causes smokers to become addictive to the smoking habit and one of the major causes of lung cancer, and other types of cancer within the upper respiratory tract, they have also determined that nicotine has also been previously used as a type of insecticide by many farmers. They discovered that there is just enough nicotine in about five sticks of cigarette to kill an average human being as a result of poisoning.

Cigarette smoking and the smoking of other tobacco products can also cause premature ageing. Smokers find that their skin and hair are a lot drier as compared to people their age that are not smoking. The premature drying up of one’s skin causes the growth of wrinkles and other signs of ageing on the skin of smokers, making them look older than they actually are.

Smoking does not only affect the health of smokers and their families. Smoking also causes a considerable amount of harm to the environment. The smoke released by smoking cause carbon dioxide and monoxide into the atmosphere. Many may seem that this appears to be a bit of exaggeration. But considering that as of today, there are approximately 1.1 billion smokers all over the world with 10 billion cigarettes purchased and consumed per minute, multiplying this can give you a rough estimate on just how much cigarette smoke is contributing to the global warming issue we are facing. Even after smoking the cigarettes, smokers further contribute to the degradation of our environment through the disposal of the cigarette filters. Cigarette filters consist of minute fibers of a type of plastic called cellulose acetate. One filter could take as long as 10 years to decompose. With an average of 10 billion cigarette filters discarded each minute, it can easily fill up land fills with toxic substances brought about by the toxins that are trapped in these filters.

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Dave Ramsey’s general advice to work hard, make your marriage a priority and avoid debt is excellent. In fact, any one who religiously followed Dave’s suggestions would have experienced far less trouble in the recent financial crisis. In far, some people probably side-stepped the whole mess by applying Ramsey’s ideas.

Nevertheless, in a handful of specific areas, one can find some minor yet important faults with the financial planning advice that Ramsey gives–and in particular with the financial calculations Dave shares in, for example, his books.

Overly Optimistic Rate of Return Assumption

One of the first problems that appear to certified public accountants and chartered financial analysts looking at Ramsey’s materials concerns the commonly quoted “12%” rate of return used in examples.

That’s way too optimistic an assumption. Yes, some years investments do generate 12%. And some specialty categories of investments (like small company stocks) may return roughly 12% over lengthy periods of time. But a traditional portfolio of diversified stocks and bonds will probably over long financial planning horizons deliver average annual returns of more like 7%-9%.

You cannot, unfortunately, consistently earn 12% on a traditional investment portfolio. No way.

Inflation Ignored Only Leads to Future Disappointments

Inflation represents another issue that an accountant or good financial planner will want to include in financial plans but an issue that isn’t always thoroughly discussed by Dave. Mathematically adjusting financial calculations for the effects of inflation can be complicated. But inflation will probably eat away at the value of the savings you accumulate.

If you’re earning 9% on your investments, for example, but inflation runs 3%, you’re not really making 9%. You’re making 6%. You can more implicitly recognize inflation in your financial planning calculations, by the way, by using the net-of-inflation return in your financial calculations. To adjust for inflation when you expect a 9% return and 3% inflation, make the computations with a 6% return.

Expense Ratios Matter

One final investment issue (for some investors) needs to be highlighted. While investment expense ratios often don’t matter much for people just starting to save money–probably this is Ramsey’s typical reader in fairness–by the time one accumulates a more size-able investment nest egg, investment costs matter. And they matter a whole lot.

In fact, if an investment pays a 2% expense ratio–and that sort of expense might be pretty normal once all the investment costs are tallied–that amount doesn’t sound so bad. But it’s pretty outrageous in most circumstances.

Consider the situation, for example, where you’ve got a 9% rate of return from an investment but suffer from a 3% inflation rate. In actuality, you’re really only earning 6% on your money. (The inflation that’s baked into the return is not really profit to you.)

If out of your net 6% investment return, you pay 2% in investment fees–in other words, if you pay out 2/6ths of your profit for investment expenses–that’s equivalent to a 33% income tax. Ouch.

In the end–just to play this sad song to the very end–while you start with 9%, after you subtract 3% inflation and 2% in investment fees–you’re left with only 4%. And note that value is a pre-tax return. So if you pay income taxes on your investment profits (and you probably will eventually), you’ll actually end up with something less than 4%. Double ouch.

Putting These Financial Planning Insights Together

The nit-picking shared in the preceding paragraphs may seem a little unfair. But to illustrate how significant the mistakes become when combined, ponder the following scenarios:

If you and your spouse save ,000 a year into a retirement fund for 30 years and say you’ll earn 12% annually, the calculated future value equals roughly ,200,000.

Note: If you know Microsoft Excel, you can copy this formula into a workbook to double-check the statement: =FV(0.12,30,-5000)

In comparison, if you and your spouse save the same ,000 a year in an IRA or 401(k) plan for 30 years but admit (sheepishly) that you’ll really only earn 4% once you adjust for inflation and that friendly financial advisor, the calculated future value equals roughly 0,000.

Note: Again, if you have access to a personal computer and Microsoft Excel, you can copy this formula into a spreadsheet cell to test my math: =FV(0.04,30,-5000)

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Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 5-8: Night of the Ninjas, Afternoon on the Amazon, Sunset of the Sabertooth, and Midnight on the Moon

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This Magic Tree House set including the following titles: Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, No. 5)
Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House, No. 6)
Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House, No. 7)
Midnight on the Moon. (Magic Tree House, No.

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•MARY POPE OSBORNE is the author of the New York Times number one bestselling Magic Tree House series. She and her husband, writer Will Osborne (author of Magic Tree House: The

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