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Published Date: 09 June 2009
SMOKING costs the NHS more than £5 billion a year – up to five times the previously accepted figure, Oxford University researchers said.
Illness and disability linked to smoking puts a "huge burden" on the health service. The largest proportion of the money spent on illnesses caused by smoking was on cardiovascular diseases, which cost £250.8 million.



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  • Last Updated: 09 June 2009 9:12 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Tobacco
 
1

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 09/06/2009 13:11:00
Rubbish!

So much for them saying that the brain-dead smoking ban would save (quote) Thousands of lives a year (unquote).

Either this "research" is total rubbish or they were lying to us about the brain-dead smoking ban.

Either way, they should scrap it.
2

Mèths,

09/06/2009 18:13:03
... and the taxes on tobacco bring in how much again?
3

Mèths,

09/06/2009 18:15:56
I'll tell you.

£10 billion in the years 2006 - 2007. It'll be around £11 billion now. In other words the good smokers of this country are subsidising the NHS to the tune of £6 billion per annum.

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
4

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 09/06/2009 23:11:30
When they start recognising the different types of smoking and acknowledge the different risks of each---for instance, cigar and pipe smoking is orders of magnitude safer than cigarette smoking---and bin all this passive smoking rubbish, I might just start listening to them.
5

Riverkidca,

Swan River 10/06/2009 01:49:17
Who's to say 1/2 of that cardiovascular disease wasn't caused by obesity?

I would wager smokers are being blamed for a lot of diseases that had nothing to do with smoking. Have they determined yet if toenail fungus is smoke related?

 

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