Did you know? Smoking-related fires are the leading cause of fire-related deaths. The costs of property damage, injuries and deaths amount to £280m in the UK.
Your Money and the Wider Impacts of Smoking
The financial cost of smoking
Smoking 20 cigarettes a day at £15 a pack, costs £105 a week or £5460 a year.
That’s the price of a small second-hand car!
Use this interactive cost calculator to see just how much you are spending on cigarettes
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The environmental cost of smoking
Tobacco is often grown in countries where farmland and water are needed to grow food.
Tobacco farming leads to deforestation and makes the land unusable for future food production.
1 tree is needed to make paper for 300 cigarettes. Enough for only 2 weeks of smoking 20 a day.
600,000,000 trees are used a year, worldwide.
About 4.5 trillion cigarette butts pollute our rivers, seas, streets, beaches, parks, soil and pavements
Green tobacco sickness – a type of nicotine poisoning – can be suffered by tobacco growers.
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- TBCTBC