Smoking and Your Health
Most people underestimate the dangers of smoking.
People often start smoking when they are young, when health problems can seem a long way off.
What many people do not realise is that nicotine addiction creates a life-long dependency on tobacco. As soon as you start smoking, you are more likely to suffer from a variety of minor illnesses but later on in life these can turn into more serious problems.
- Smoking is the biggest single cause of ill health and premature death in the UK.
- Smokers have a 1 in 2 risk of getting ill and dying early from smoking.
- Smoking kills 120,000 people each year in the UK
- 13 people die each hour because of smoking
- Over 80% of all lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking.
