Sheffield: City’s Shock Smoking Toll

If just 28 deaths from smoking related illness were prevented each year health services in Sheffield would be £1.6 million better off.The figure has been calculated by health chiefs to show the huge financial benefits to the NHS of saving relatively few lives by persuading people to give up smoking. In Sheffield, 1,200 people die prematurely each year from diseases caused by smoking, such as heart attacks, strokes and lung diseases including cancer. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on December 6th, 2007