Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis -- Jamrozik 330 (7495): 812 -- BMJ

Estimate of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis -- Jamrozik 330 (7495): 812 -- BMJ
Konrad Jamrozik,
Results Across the United Kingdom as a whole, passive smoking at work is likely to be responsible for the deaths of more than two employed people per working day (617 deaths per year), including 54 deaths in the hospitality industry each year. Each year passive smoking at home might account for another 2700 deaths in persons aged 20-64 years and 8000 deaths among people aged ≥ 65.

Conclusion Exposure at work might contribute up to one fifth of all deaths from passive smoking in the general population aged 20-64 years, and up to half of such deaths among employees of the hospitality industry. Adoption of smoke free policies in all workplaces and reductions in the general prevalence of active smoking would lead to substantial reductions in these avoidable deaths.