28-10-2005, 12:41
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 648
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Re: smoking and the pub
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One in two long-term smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking †“ half of these in middle age. The most recent estimates show that around 114,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking every year, accounting for one fifth of all UK deaths.
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http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html
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25,000 people die in the UK each year from alcohol-related illnesses - this is 50 times the annual rate of death from all illicit drugs put together!
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http://www.recovery.org.uk/druginfo/index.html
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