More Facts About Smoking
Each year around 9,300 British babies are killed by passive smoking according to a report by Dr Tony Lee MD FRCP, of Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey. ANSR 2 January1991
Over 900 Britons could be dying every year from lung cancer contracted from passive smoking. Radio Times January l991
Over 2,500 British adults are dying every year from other than lung cancers contracted from passive smoking. Tobacco-smoke Pollution - Phillip Whidden ANSR January 1993
An estimated 9,000 British Heart disease patients could be dying every year because of other people’s smoking. Radio Times January 1991
Therefore, here in the UK, 9,300 + 900 + 2,500 + 9,000 = 21,700 premature deaths each year may be attributed to passive smoking.
Deaths from inhaling other people’s smoke: Here in the UK an estimated 1,500 babies die every year because of their smoking mothers. S Stock, The Perils of Second-hand Smoking, New Scientist, October 2, 1980
The habit of cigarette smoking by the pregnant mother kills in excess of 1,000 infants per annum in the UK, according to British gynaecologist Dr J. McGarry. Tobacco Alert, December 1983, published by World Health Organisation, Geneva.
The intake from passive smoking could be causing about 1,000 smoking-related deaths a year among non-smokers in Britain, said Dr Michael Russell, head of the addiction research unit at the institute of Psychiatry in London, March 1995. Reader's Digest November 1985
46,000 adults die each year in the USA due to passive smoking. A.J.Wells, Passive Smoking and adult mortality, Sixth World Conference on Smoking and health, Tokyo, Japan, November 11,1987. ANSR, Exposure to Other People's Tobacco-Smoke Pollution, an update.
A 14-year study of 265,118 Japanese men and women demonstrated that lung cancer was much more prevalent among wives of smoking husbands than in non-smoking couples. Readers Digest November 1985
A Greek study found that women married to smokers were at higher risk of lung cancer than similar women married to non-smokers. Reader’s Digest November 1985
An American survey shows that non-smoking women, whose husbands were cigarette smokers of long standing, died on average four years earlier than those married to non-smokers. Reader's Digest November 1985
The Froggatt Report, March 1988: The British Government report by the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health confirms that non-smokers are at risk from passive smoking.
A draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that cigarette smoke is responsible for more than 3,000 cases of lung cancer among non-smokers each year in the United States.
Research from the USA claims that passive smoking may kill up to 53,000 Americans every year. American heart Association Press Release 9 September 1991
Every year on earth an estimated 3 million people die prematurely as a direct result of smoking and an estimated 560,000 die from the inhalation of other people's smoking.