Dying for a Smoke ?

Posted on March 14th, 2007 filed in Misc, Photos, Wales, Welsh Assembly

• Every year, around 114,000 smokers in the UK die as a result of their addiction
• Smoking kills around six times more people in the UK than road traffic accidents (3,439), other accidents (8,579), poisoning and overdose (881), alcoholic liver disease (5,121), murder and manslaughter (513), suicide (4,066), and HIV infection (234) all put together (22,833 in total - 2002 figures).
• Smoking causes thirty per cent of all cancer deaths (including at least 84% of lung cancer deaths), 17% of all heart disease deaths and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema.
• Stopping smoking reduces this excess risk – stopping before age 35 can reduce a smoker’s health risks to the same as those of a life-long non-smoker

* Photograph and statistics by National No Smoking Day

* Information on the Welsh Smoking Ban which comes into force on April 2nd 2007