Smoking ‘could cost Britain $10.9B’
NZPA-Reuter London Smoking may cost the British economy at least .£4 billion ($10.96 billion) a year and cause more than 100,000 premature deaths, an anti-smoking group said. ASH said its statistics were based on a new study by the Ulster Cancer Foundation in Northern Ireland which shows that in spite of claims by the tobacco industry that it provides employment and money in taxes, smoking actually costs the Government money. The study, which is endorsed by the British Medical Association, showed that smoking costs
more than £lO3 million a year in Northern Ireland, even after allowing for all the so-called benefits.
“This report finally explodes the myth that although it kills vast numbers of people tobacco is somehow good for the economy,” an ASH director, Mr David Simpson, said.
ASH said the figures for Northern Ireland, from which the equivalent for the whole of Britain was calculated, took into account the costs of health care and sickness benefit, as well as the cost to industry in lost production and fires caused by smoking.
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