§ Lord Stoddart of Swindonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are the so-called smoking-related diseases from which they estimate 120,000 people die each year and at what age in each case death occurred and what percentage were smokers at the time of death; and
How many men and how many women who died of a so-called smoking-related disease were above the average age of life expectation when they died, and how many were smokers at the time of death: and
What percentage of total annual deaths is represented by the number of deaths from so-called smoking-related diseases.
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonIt is estimated that 120,000 people died as a result of smoking in the United Kingdom in 1995. The diseases attributed to smoking and used to estimate the total number of deaths are:
Cancers of lung, upper respiratory, oesophagus, bladder, kidney, stomach, pancreas and myeloid leukaemia