The Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, begins on January 29. Also called Spring Festival, this annual celebration is observed by many Asian cultures.

A recent report from a personal finance site has highlighted the costs that smokers can incur over their lifetime.

"We don't realize how much far beyond that cost of a pack we're putting into (smoking)," says Jennifer Folkenroth, national senior director for tobacco control at the American Lung Association.

Every year a man smokes a pack a day, he shortens his life by almost 2 months. Source: University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, April 2000 There are some 1.1 billion people who smoke on ...

The true per-person cost of smoking is highest in New York and lowest in South Carolina, according to a WalletHub analysis published Jan. 15.