Les fumeurs coûtent plus de £5 milliards par an au système de santé public

     De nouvelles études britanniques viennent de révéler que les fumeurs coûtent  plus de £5 milliards par an au NHS (National Health Service).

Rappelons qu’en France, un francais sur trois fume.


Smokers costs the NHS more than £5 billion a year, researchers have found.

The figure is up to five times more than what was previously thought.

Earlier studies put the cost of smoking to the NHS at between £1.4 billion and £1.7 billion in 1991 but the new analysis pushes this figure to £5.17 billion in 2005/06 and could still be an underestimate.

Researchers from the Department of Public Health at Oxford University said illness and disability linked to smoking puts a "huge burden" on the health service.

The largest proportion of the money spent on illness caused by smoking was on cardiovascular diseases (£250.8 million), the study showed.

Lead researcher Dr Steve Allender said: “We did not include the burden due to passive smoking or other conditions reported to be associated with smoking such as infertility, stillbirths, osteoporosis and eye diseases. If you added all the indirect health costs and overall costs to the economy then the figures would be massive."