HL Deb 11 October 1999 vol 605 c31WA
Lord Stoddart of Swindon

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by the Baroness Hayman on 22 July (WA 115) concerning the costs to the National Health Service of smoking-related illness, how the estimates of such costs were arrived at. [HL4028]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

The £1.7 billion figure is based on 1991 estimates of smoking attributable mortality. The £1.4 billion estimate of smoking-related costs is based on calculations from the 1994 General Household Survey (GHS), uprated for the underreporting of health service use by the GHS.