The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7339 p263
5 March 2005

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Passive smoking kills at least 30 people in UK daily

Passive smoking kills at least 30 people every day in the UK, according to a new study (BMJ Online First).

Using national UK databases, Konrad Jamrozik, of the University of Queensland, Australia, calculated the number of deaths due to passive smoking at home and at work in employees of the hospitality industry, the general workforce and the general population. He estimated that there are at least two deaths daily attributed to passive smoking at work. “It is clear that adoption of smoke free policies in all workplaces in the UK might prevent several hundred premature deaths each year,” Professor Jamrozik concludes.