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Smoking & Disease

• Tobacco use kills around 114,000 people in the UK every year, more than 300 every day.
  
  
• About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their habit.
  
  
• Smoking causes at least 80% of all deaths from lung cancer, around 80% of all deaths from bronchitis and emphysema and around 17% of all deaths from heart disease.
  
  
• Thirty per cent of all cancer deaths can be attributed to smoking. Cancers other than lung cancer which are linked to smoking include:

  cervical cancer

  cancer of the pancreas

  cancer of the kidney

  liver cancer

  cancers of the mouth, lip and throat

  bladder cancer

  stomach cancer

  leukaemia
  
  

• Fewer than 10% of lung cancer patients survive five years after diagnosis.
  
  
• Smokers who smoke between 1 and 14 cigarettes a day have eight times the risk of dying from lung cancer compared to non-smokers. Smokers who smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day have 25 times this risk compared to non-smokers.
  
  
• Cigarette smoking increases the risk of having a heart attack by two or three times, compared with the risk to non-smokers.
  
  
• Smokers have a 10-16 times greater risk of developing peripheral vascular disease which may lead to amputation of one or both legs.
  
  
• Smoking has been associated with increased sperm abnormalities and is a cause of impotence.
  
  
• People who smoke and drink alcohol regularly are at greater risk of mouth and throat cancers.  One study found that among consumers of both products the risk of these cancers was increased more than 35-fold among those who smoked forty or more cigarettes a day and took more than four alcoholic drinks a day.
  
  
• More than 17,000 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year because of the effects of passive smoking.

Information Source : ASH

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