Tobacco Fact File

• Seven out of ten smokers in developed countries say they regret starting and would like to give up.
  

• Smoking kills around 120,000 people in the UK each year.
  

• Smoking kills six times more people in the UK than road traffic incidents, poisoning, overdose, murder, manslaughter, suicide and HIV combined.

• With current smoking trends, about 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use.
  

• Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, over 50 of which are known carcinogens.
  

• Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, over 50 of which are known carcinogens.
  

• In 2000 in the UK, 162 people died in fires caused by smokers' materials.
  

• If current trends continue, 250 million children alive today will die from tobacco-related disease.

• Everyday, approximately 80-100,000 young people around the world become addicted to tobacco.

• Cancer Research UK states that smoking causes up to 90% of all lung cancer cases.
  

• Smoking is the main cause of chronic obstructive lung disease in the UK.
  

• Smoking accounts for 26,000 deaths from coronary heart disease in the UK.
  

• Increased risk of lung, upper respiratory sites, bladder and pancreatic cancers, as well as ischaemic heart disease, respiratory heart disease, aortic aneurysm and chronic obstructive lung disease, are largely or entirely caused by smoking.
  

• Disorders associated with smoking during pregnancy are: low birth weight; congenital limb reduction; spontaneous abortion; and ectopic pregnancy.
  

• The average loss of life for all smokers whose deaths are attributable to tobacco is about 16 years.
  

• Smoking kills over half a million women each year.
  

• Smoking currently kills one in ten adults worldwide. By 2030, the proportion will be one in six.
  

• About 98% of smokers who try to quit without the assistance of cessation programmes will have started again within a year.
  

• Tobacco dependence is listed in the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD-10).
  

• Exposure to tobacco smoke during infancy is a cause of cot death.
  

• Evidence of exposure to secondhand smoke can clearly be seen in new-born babies whose mothers have been exposed to tobacco smoke.
  

• Exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of premature birth.
  

• Foetal exposure to second-hand smoke is linked to low-birth weight.
  

• Exposing children to secondhand smoke, in utero, affects their lung function during the first year of life.
  

• Recurrent ear infections in children are associated with exposure to secondhand smoke.
  

• Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of stroke.
  

• Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the symptoms of asthma.
  

• Secondhand smoke is cited by up to 80% of asthmatics as a trigger for further attacks.
  

• For women who have been exposed to more than 40,000 hours of passive smoking, the risk of lung cancer is multiplied by 2.67.
  

• Secondhand smoke is often not detected, leaving most people unaware of the extent to which they are actually exposed.
  

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