When A pack of cigarettes cost $222
It seems counterintuitive that we, as a society, complain about the costs of everyday essentials yet pay so much for a cigarette. For example a main problem people have is the increasing price of gasoline. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics creators, have consistently been doing tests and research and each one has the same response. There is less than zero health benefits of smoking cigarettes. It was discovered that the reason people keep buying cigarettes is they do not seem expensive. On average cigarettes take $8.00 out of your pocket each time you buy them. The problem is people are perceiving spending $70.00 on gas that can last one about 10 days where as cigarettes are only 8.00. Levitt and Dubner said things are only “cheap” because of our spending habits. The mind is perceiving that $8.00 is nothing coming out of our pockets on a day to day basis. They prompt society to have a more careful eye on spending habits.
Do Multivitamins Really Work?
It seems counterintuitive that multivitamins are not as good for the body as they claim to be. According to the data the people who get their nutrition from food should not be taking a vitamin everyday. People are under the impression that taking them help them, while they do, but they are not life savers. It is actually unhealthy for them to take in too many nutrients from both food and the multivitamins.
Extreme Parenting
It seems counterintuitive that parents are beginning to care more about their child’s academic status than the well being of the child. In many cultures, but primarily stereotyped in the Asian community, parents are pushing their children past their limits in order to do well in school. It seems counterintuitive that they are so focused on making their child excel, while limiting them throughout the rest of their childhoods. It is important to do well in the classroom, but it is also important for them to be physically and mentally healthy and well rounded.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
These are impressively concise and direct, JetsFan. I don’t sense much counterintuitivity in your setups, but that’s a matter of emphasis you could improve easily if you wanted to spend the time. I do wish they were more Purposeful. The point of the $222 cigarette was not to suggest that cigarettes seem cheap because we don’t buy a month’s worth at a time (many people do, by the carton, to save money); it was to emphasize that the COST of cigarette smoking isn’t reflected in the PRICE of cigarettes. A gallon of gas would cost easily $20 if, every time we bought a gallon, we had to PAY FOR the health costs of polluting the air and contributing to the massive costs of global warming. Just an example.
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