How smoking affects our health

• During 2006 there were 227 deaths in Carlisle as a direct result of smoking.
  In Cumbria there were 997 deaths last year attributed to smoking, the equivalent of the population of a village like Wetheral dying unnecessarily.
  
• In some wards in Carlisle 50% of the population smoke
  
• Tobacco smoking is the biggest cause of preventable ill health and premature death in the UK. More than 120,000 people die per year as a result of their addiction to smoking
  
• Smoking causes 17% of all heart disease deaths and 30% of all cancer deaths including 84% of lung cancer deaths and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema
  
• Statistics show that about half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their habit
  
• Smoking killed five times more people in the UK in 2002 than traffic accidents (3,439); poisoning and overdoses (881); alcoholic liver disease (5,121); other accidental deaths (8,579); murder and manslaughter (513); suicide (4066) and HIV infection (234) added together
  
• Research indicates that about 450 children across the U.K start smoking every day. Second-hand (Passive) Smoke Exposure to other people's tobacco smoke is a known cause of ill health, with extensive research showing a link between smoking and illnesses.

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