HC Deb 10 March 1999 vol 327 c296W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people who suffered from smoking-related diseases in each of the last five years. [75459]

Ms Jowell

The latest figures available in "The UK Smoking Epidemic: Deaths in 1995", by the Health Education Authority, estimate that at least 121,000 people died as a result of their smoking in United Kingdom in 1995. Comparable figures are not available for earlier years.