Smoking
‘30 per cent of the health gap in London is caused by smoking and its
related impact on health. If we could tackle one thing to bring
boroughs’ health targets up, it would be smoking,’ says the LHO’s Dr
Bobbie Jacobson.
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Deaths caused by smoking, as percentage of all deaths
| Least | ||
| 1= | Barnet, Bromley, Enfield, Kingston, Richmond | 16 |
| Most | ||
| 27= | Greenwich, Newham, Southwark | 20 |
| 30= | Barking & Dagenham, Islington | 21 |
| 32 | Tower Hamlets | 22 |
(Source: ‘Tobacco: the Preventable Burden’, London Health Observatory, 2001)
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