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Smoking-related deaths source: ASH UK / Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, latest available data.
Sources
- Office for National Statistics — Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2023. "Around 6.0 million people aged 18 years and over (11.9%) smoked cigarettes in the UK in 2023."
- NHS Digital — Statistics on Smoking, England 2020. 74,600 deaths attributable to smoking in England (2019). UK-wide estimates including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are approximately 80,000 per year. Alcohol (~10,000, ONS), drug misuse (~4,900, ONS) and road deaths (~1,700, DfT) combined total approximately 16,600.
- NHS Digital — Statistics on Smoking, England 2020. NHS costs attributable to smoking estimated at £2.5–2.6 billion per year.
- Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) — ASH Ready Reckoner, January 2025. "The tangible wider societal costs of smoking in England are £43.7 bn." Includes productivity, healthcare, social care and fire costs.
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities / Khan Review — Making Smoking Obsolete, 2022. Tobacco smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, at least 70 of which are known to cause cancer.
- Royal College of Physicians — Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction, 2016. "The main culprit is smoke and, if nicotine could be delivered effectively and acceptably to smokers without smoke, most of the harm of smoking could probably be avoided."