Smoking and Your Health Traditional cigarettes have been extensively studied for decades, and their health risks are well-known: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide
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Other measures Jean King, of Cancer Research UK, added: "Tobacco kills half of all long-term users and is responsible for one in four cancer deaths
In the three year period 2017-19, it is estimated that there were 1,501 deaths to Hull residents attributable to smoking, and Hull had the highest mortality rate (420 deaths per 100,000 population aged 35+ years) among English upper-tier local authorities and the rate was more than twice as high as England (202 deaths per 100,000 population aged 35+ years)
The good news is that there is a drug free and easy way to stop smoking which has no ongoing costs so you save as soon as you attend a stop smoking seminar or watch our stop smoking online video programme.