Irish study reveals 1 in every 2 smokers will die from related illness

The latest anti-smoking campaign in Ireland reveals that one in every two smokers will die from a smoking related illness. The HSE have launched a campaign, ‘QUIT’ with the aim of reducing the number of smokers in the country. 

We are informed by the HSE that only 7% of people are aware that one in every two smokers’ cause of death will be associated with their tobacco smoking. 

The results state that 80% of smokers have the desire to quit and 40% of them try to succeed in quitting each year. 

Hannah Waterman is a prime example of someone who is fully aware of the risks associated with smoking but who finds the addiction so overwhelming that she cannot even quit the habit at 7 months pregnant. Stop Smoking seems impossibility for her. 

Doctors have criticised her public habit and said that even one cigarette is potentially dangerous to the health of an unborn baby and can cause still birth and cot death. A baffling figure reveals that smoking during pregnancy causes 300 otherwise avoidable stillbirths, 5,000 miscarriages and 2,200 premature labours. 

Furthermore, babies born to mothers who smoke can have serious birth defects. The coverage on Hannah Waterman, as the Daily Mail says, only serves to heighten just how addictive smoking is. Despite the fact that Miss Waterman is receiving such bad press over her habit but continues to do so in the full glare of her judgmental public. It is unlikely at seven months that she will quit smoking now.

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