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Source: ONS, 2020
Source: Office of National Statistics (Last accessed in January 4, 2024)
Tobacco is estimated to account for more than 125 thousand deaths. Smoking accounts for of 120 thousand deaths, secondhand smoke for 8 thousand deaths, and chewing tobacco for 38 deaths.
Tobacco is responsible for 18.9 thousand or 22% of total IHD deaths, 25.7 thousand or 81% of all COPD deaths, 6.1 thousand or 15% of all Stroke deaths and 31 thousand or 83% of all tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer deaths in 2019.
“If current/ex-smokers had never smoked, the difference in the equivalent rates of economic activity would boost the UK economy by £19.1 billion a year or 1.9% of earnings.”
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[1] The data of UK comprises four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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