Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died as a result of smoking related conditions in each of the last three years.
The estimated number of deaths for adults aged 35 and over attributable to smoking, over the years 2013-15 are presented in the following table:
Year | Deaths |
2013 | 78,200 |
2014 | 77,800 |
2015 | 79,100 |
Source: NHS Digital – Statistics on Smoking, England, 2017