How to intervene against smoking.

l Smoking is the biggest killer in the UK The causal link between smoking and increased morbidity and mortality is firmly established: 120,000 people die each year in the UK as a result of smoking, about half of them in middle age or earlier1. Smokers are less fit than nonsmokers, they suffer more from both minor and major illness and they feel less healthy2. They also cost each health authority an average of £14 million and each general practitioner (GP) more than £8,000 in additional consultation time each year3.