Here are some more frightening statistics. Worryingly though are the facts about teenagers. By allowing smoking in pubs we are hardly sending out preventative messages to our teenagers....We need to get serious about stopping smoking and stopping the habit being formed.
Off the top of my head there are something like 1000 admissions everyday to hospitals in the UK due to smoking related diseases.
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About one fifth of Britain's 15 year-olds †“ 18% of boys and 26% of girls - are regular smokers - despite the fact that it is illegal to sell cigarettes to children aged under16
Tobacco is the only legally available consumer product which kills people when it is used entirely as intended
Deaths caused by smoking are five times higher than the 22,833 deaths arising from: 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) in the UK during 2002.
More than 80% of smokers take up the habit as teenagers.
Half of all teenagers who are currently smoking will die from diseases caused by tobacco if they continue to smoke. One quarter will die after 70 years of age and one quarter before, with those dying before 70 losing on average 21 years of life. [2] It is estimated that between 1950 and 2000 six million Britons, 60 million people worldwide, would have died from tobacco-related diseases
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