140 Women In The UK Die Every Day From Smoking-Related Diseases

My dear, when you stop smoking and use a nicotine patch –
Stick it over your mouth.

My first New Year’s resolution is not to smoke any more.
My second is not to smoke any less.

Pregnant women in the North are almost nine times more likely to smoke than those in the South.
One in three women expecting babies light up in Blackpool compared to just one in 25 in Richmond, Surrey.
Smoking-related lung cancer deaths are highest in Middlesbrough.

140 women die every day in the UK from smoking-related  diseases.
Smoking increases premature ageing and wrinkles.
Smoking is linked to lung cancer and mouth / throat cancer.
Smoking doubles the risk of having a stroke.
Another condition most commonly caused by smoking is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
This claims more lives than breast cancer annually and the rates are climbing three times faster in women than in men.
Smoking levels have been falling since the early 80s but ten million adults in the UK still smoke and every year about 114,000 deaths are recorded from smoking-related illness.
Of these more than 50,000 or 140 a day, are women.