§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will publish her most recent calculation of the totals of people who died in each of the past five years as a result of the use of(a) alcohol, (b) tobacco, (c) heroin, (d) cocaine and (e) cannabis.
§ Mr. BowisIt is estimated that in the United Kindom about 110,000 deaths a year are related to smoking.
Alcohol is implicated directly or indirectly in a number of causes of death including cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, accidents, stroke, cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and oesophagus. Studies undertaken since 1985 suggest that a reasonable estimate of the total number of alcohol associated deaths would be around 25,000 per year in England and Wales.
Deaths with underlying cause described as drug dependence or non dependent abuse of drugs by type of drug and year of registration of death in the United Kingdom are: 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Morphine Type1 65 64 77 91 97 Cocaine 1 2 2 3 0 Cannabis 0 0 1 0 0 1 This category includes heroin, methadone, opium, opium alkaloids and their derivatives, and synthetic drugs with morphine-like effects.
Deaths from poisoning by solid or liquid substances: accidental, suicidal and undetermined whether accidentally taken or purposely inflicted in Great Britain are: 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Heroin 22 24 36 34 44 Cocaine 5 6 4 2 10 Cannabis 2 2 3 2 4 Reference:
"Statistics of drug addicts notified to the Home Office, United Kingdom, 1992", Home Office Statistical Bulletin No. 15/93.