Somebody in Britain dies of a smoking-related disease every 4 minutes. That's about 120,000 people a year.

About half of all teenagers who keep smoking will eventually be killed by tobacco. Half of these will die in middle age (35-69). If they hadn't smoked, they would probably have lived another 20 to 25 years. The rest will die later, perhaps having suffered throughout their life from more diseases and disorders than most non-smokers.

Most people killed by tobacco started in their teenage years.