There were 460,000 hospital admissions in England for illnesses attributed to smoking
Last year 816,000 set a quit date with NHS Stop Smoking Services
One in every 20 hospital beds are taken up by someone with a smoking-related illness, figures revealed yesterday.
Every day 1,260 adults aged 35 and over are admitted to hospital due to smoking, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
It says that between 2010 and 2011 there were 460,000 hospital admissions in England attributable to smoking.
Of these, 126,200 had a respiratory disease, representing one in four of all patients with such a condition.
Some 160,300 hospital patients had a smoking-related cancer such as lung cancer – more than one in 10 of all cancer admissions.
A further 135,400 patients were diagnosed with circulatory diseases such as heart disease. More people tried to kick the habit last year, says the HSCIC. Between 2011 and 2012, 816,000 people set a quit date with the help of NHS Stop Smoking Services, up four per cent on the previous year.
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